Genesis 12–22

12^*Now the ^aLord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: ²And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: ^3bAnd I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: ^cand in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. ⁴So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. ⁵And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and ^dthe souls that they had gotten ^ein Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came. ⁶And Abram ^fpassed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the ^gplain of ^hMoreh. ⁱAnd the Canaanite was then in the land. ⁷And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, ^kUnto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto him. ⁸And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the Lord, and ^lcalled upon the name of the Lord. ⁹And Abram journeyed, ^†going on still toward the south.

¹⁰And there was ^ma famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was ⁿgrievous in the land. ¹¹And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon: ¹²Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they ^owill kill me, but they will save thee alive. ¹³Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee. ¹⁴And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair. ¹⁵The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house. ¹⁶And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels. ¹⁷And the Lord ^pplagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram’s wife. ¹⁸And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? ¹⁹Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way. ²⁰And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

13And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south. ^2aAnd Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. ³And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Hai; ⁴Unto the ^bplace of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the Lord. ⁵And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. ⁶And ^cthe land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. ⁷And there was ^da strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: ^eand the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land. ⁸And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be ^f†brethren. ^9gIs not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: ^hif thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left. ¹⁰And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all ^hthe plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord ⁱdestroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, ^keven as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto ^lZoar. ¹¹Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other. ¹²Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom. ¹³But the men of Sodom ^mwere wicked and ⁿsinners before the Lord exceedingly.

¹⁴And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art ^onorthward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: ¹⁵For all the land which thou seest, ^pto thee will I give it, and ^qto thy seed for ever. ¹⁶And ^rI will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. ¹⁷Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee. ¹⁸Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the ^†plain of Mamre, ^swhich is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the Lord.

14And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of ^aShinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of ^bElam, and Tidal king of nations; ²That these made war with Bera king of ^cSodom, and with Birsha king of ^cGomorrah, Shinab king of ^dAdmah, and Shemeber king of ^dZeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is ^eZoar. ³All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, ^fwhich is the salt sea. ⁴Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. ⁵And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote ^gthe Rephaims ^hin Ashteroth Karnaim, and ⁱthe Zuzims in Ham, ^kand the Emims in ^||Shaveh Kiriathaim, ^6lAnd the Horites in their mount Seir, unto ^||mEl-paran, which is by the wilderness. ⁷And they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt ⁿin Hazezon-tamar. ⁸And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim; ⁹With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings with five. ¹⁰And the vale of Siddim was full of ^oslimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled ^pto the mountain. ¹¹And they took ^qall the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way. ¹²And they took Lot, Abram’s ^rbrother’s son, ^swho dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed. ¹³And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the ^tplain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: ^uand these were confederate with Abram. ¹⁴And when Abram heard that ^whis brother was taken captive, he ^||armed his ^||trained servants, ^xborn in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto ^yDan. ¹⁵And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is ^zon the left hand of Damascus. ¹⁶And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

¹⁷And 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 ^aking’s dale. ¹⁸And ^bMelchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was ^cthe priest of ^dthe most high God. ¹⁹And he blessed him, and said, ^eBlessed be Abram of the most high God, ^fpossessor of heaven and earth: ²⁰And ^gblessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him ^htithes of all. ²¹And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the ^†persons, and take the goods to thyself. ²²And Abram said to the king of Sodom, ⁱI have lift up mine hand unto the Lord, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, ²³That ^kI will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich: ²⁴Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men ^lwhich went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.

15After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, ^aFear not, Abram: I am thy ^bshield, and thy exceeding ^cgreat reward. ²And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of ^dDamascus? ³And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, ^eone born in my house is mine heir. ⁴And, behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that ^fshall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. ⁵And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and ^gtell the ^hstars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, ⁱSo shall thy seed be. ⁶And he ^kbelieved in the Lord; and he ^lcounted it to him for righteousness. ⁷And he said unto him, I am the Lord that brought thee out of ^mUr of the Chaldees, ⁿto give thee this land to inherit it. ⁸And he said, Lord God, ^owhereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? ⁹And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. ¹⁰And he took unto him all these, and ^pdivided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but ^qthe birds divided he not. ¹¹And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away. ¹²And when the sun was going down, ^ra deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great…