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And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his tried and experienced
servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued
them unto Dan.
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And he and his slaves poured themselves out against them by night and smote them and pursued them unto Hobah, which
is on the left hand of Damascus.
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And he recovered all the goods and also brought again his brother Lot and his goods and the women also and the people.
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And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and of the kings that
were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which
is the valley of the king.
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Then Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought forth bread and wine, for he
was the priest of the most high God.
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And he blessed him and said, Blessed
be Abram of the most high God, possessor of the heavens and of the earth;
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and blessed be the most high God, who has delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And
Abram gave him tithes of all.
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Then the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons and take the goods to thyself.
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And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of the heavens and of the earth,
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that I will not
take from a thread even to a shoelatchet; I will not take any thing that
is thine, lest thou should say, I have made Abram rich,
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except only that which the young men have eaten and the portion of the men who went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre, who shall take their portion.