¹¹So^g they^h took all the possessions of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their provisions, and they left. ¹²And theyⁱ took Lot, the son of the brother of Abram, and his possessions, and left. (Now he had been living in Sodom.) ¹³Then^j one who escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew. And he was living at the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner. They were allies with Abram.^k ¹⁴When^l Abram heard that his relative^m was taken captive, he summoned his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen of them, and he went in pursuit up to Dan. ¹⁵And he divided his trained men against them at night, he and his servants. And he defeated them and pursued them to Hobah, which is north of Damascus. ¹⁶And he brought back all the possessions. And he also brought back Lot, his relative,ⁿ and his possessions, and the women and the people as well.

Abram Meets Melchizedek

¹⁷After his return from defeating Kedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the Valley of the King). ¹⁸And Melchizedek, the king of Salem, brought out bread and wine. (He was the priest of God Most High). ¹⁹And he blessed him and said,

“Blessed be Abram by God Most High,

Maker of heaven and earth.

²⁰And blessed be God Most High

who delivered your enemies into your hand.”

And he^o gave to him a tenth of everything. ²¹And the king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people, but the possessions take for yourself.” ²²And Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have raised my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, Maker of heaven and earth, ²³that neither a thread nor^p a thong of a sandal would I take from all that belongs to you, that you might not say, ‘I made Abram rich.’

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Footnotes

gOr “And”
hIn context, the enemy
iIn context, the enemy
jOr “And”
kLiterally “And they were owners of a covenant of Abram”
lOr “And”
mLiterally “brother”
nLiterally “brother”
oThat is, Abram
pLiterally “that not from a thread and up to”