Genesis 14:11–23

¹¹And they take the whole substance of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the whole of their food, and go away; ¹²and they take Lot, Abram’s brother’s son (seeing he is dwelling in Sodom), and his substance, and go away.

¹³And one who is escaping cometh and declareth to Abram the Hebrew, and he is dwelling among the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner, and they are Abram’s allies. ¹⁴And Abram heareth that his brother hath been taken captive, and he draweth out his trained domestics, three hundred and eighteen, and pursueth unto Dan. ¹⁵And he divideth himself against them by night, he and his servants, and smiteth them, and pursueth them unto Hobah, which is at the left of Damascus; ¹⁶and he bringeth back the whole of the substance, and also Lot his brother and his substance hath he brought back, and also the women and the people.

¹⁷And the king of Sodom goeth out to meet him (after his turning back from the smiting of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings who are with him), unto the valley of Shaveh, which is the king’s valley. ¹⁸And Melchizedek king of Salem hath brought out bread and wine, and he is priest of God Most High; ¹⁹and he blesseth him, and saith, ‘Blessed is Abram to God Most High, possessing heaven and earth; ²⁰and blessed is God Most High, who hath delivered thine adversaries into thy hand;’ and he giveth to him a tenth of all.

²¹And the king of Sodom saith unto Abram, ‘Give to me the persons, and the substance take to thyself,’ ²²and Abram saith unto the king of Sodom, ‘I have lifted up my hand unto Jehovah, God Most High, possessing heaven and earth— ²³from a thread even unto a shoe-latchet I take not of anything which thou hast, that thou say not, I—I have made Abram rich;