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them selues against them by night, and smote three yeeres olde, a turtle doue also and a pigeon.
them and pursued them vnto Hobah, which is on 10 So he tooke all these vnto him, and deuided
the left side of Damascus, 16 And he recouered them into the middes, and laid euery piece one
all the substance, and also brought againe his against an other: but the birdes deuided he not.
brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also 11 Then foules fell on the carkases, and Abram
and the people. 17 After that he returned from the droue them away. 12 And when the sunne went
slaughter of Chedor-laomer, and of the Kings that downe, there fell an heauie sleepe vpon Abram:
were with him, came the King of Sodom foorth to and loe, a very fearefull darkenes fell vpon him.
meete him in the valley of Shaueh, which is the 13 Then he saide to Abram, Knowe for a suretie,
Kings dale. 18 And Melchi-zedek King of Shalem that thy seede shalbe a stranger in a land, that
brought foorth bread and wine: and he was a is not theirs, foure hundreth yeeres, and shall
Priest of the most high God. 19 Therefore he serue them: and they shall intreate them euill.
blessed him, saying, Blessed art thou, Abram, of 14 Notwithstanding the nation, whom they shall
God most high possessour of heauen and earth, serue, will I iudge: and afterward shall they
20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath come out with great substance. 15 But thou
deliuered thine enemies into thine hand. And shalt goe vnto thy fathers in peace, and shalt
Abram gaue him tythe of all. 21 Then the King of be buried in a good age. 16 And in the fourth
Sodom saide to Abram, Giue me the persons, and generation they shall come hither againe: for
take the goodes to thy selfe. 22 And Abram said to the wickednes of the Amorites is not yet full.
the King of Sodom, I haue lift vp mine hand vnto 17 Also when the sunne went downe, there was
the Lord the most hie God possessor of heauen a darkenes: and behold, a smoking fornace, and
andearth, ThatIwillnottakeofallthatisthine, a firebrand, which went betweene those pieces.
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so much as a threde or shoolatchet, lest thou 18 In that same day the Lord made a couenant
shouldest say, I haue made Abram riche, 24 Saue with Abram, saying, Vnto thy seede haue I giuen
onely that, which the yong men haue eaten, and this lande, from the riuer of Egypt vnto the great
the partes of the men which went with me, Aner, riuer, the riuer Euphrates. 19 The Kenites, and
Eshcol, and Mamre: let them take their partes. the Kenizites, and the Kadmonites, 20 And the
15 Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
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The Amorites also, and the Canaanites, and the
1 After these things, the worde of the Lord Girgashites, and the Iebusites.
came vnto Abram in a vision, saying, Feare not,
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great reward. 2 And Abram said, O Lord God, 1 Nowe Sarai Abrams wife bare him no chil-
what wilt thou giue me, seeing I goe childlesse, dren, and she had a maide an Egyptian, Hagar
and the steward of mine house is this Eliezer of by name. 2 And Sarai said vnto Abram, Beholde
Damascus? 3 Againe Abram saide, Beholde, to now, the Lord hath restrained me from childe
me thou hast giuen no seede: wherefore loe, a bearing. I pray thee goe in vnto my maide: it
seruant of mine house shalbe mine heire. Then may be that I shall receiue a childe by her. And
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beholde, the worde of the Lord came vnto him, Abram obeyed the voyce of Sarai. 3 Then Sarai
saying, This man shall not be thine heire, but Abrams wife tooke Hagar her maide the Egyptian,
one that shall come out of thine owne bowels, he after Abram had dwelled ten yeere in the land
shalbe thine heire. 5 Moreouer he brought him of Canaan, and gaue her to her husband Abram
forth and said, Looke vp nowe vnto heauen, and for his wife. 4 And he went in vnto Hagar, and
tell ye starres, if thou be able to number them: she conceiued. and when she sawe that she
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and he said vnto him, So shall thy seede be. And had conceiued, her dame was despised in her
Abram beleeued the Lord, and he counted that to eyes. Then Sarai saide to Abram, Thou doest me
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him for righteousnesse. 7 Againe he saide vnto wrong. I haue giuen my maide into thy bosome,
him, I am the Lord, that brought thee out of Vr and she seeth that she hath conceiued, and I am
of the Caldees, to giue thee this land to inherite despised in her eyes: the Lord iudge betweene me
it. 8 And he said, O Lord God, whereby shall I and thee. 6 Then Abram saide to Sarai, Beholde,
knowe that I shall inherite it? Then he said vnto thy maide is in thine hand: doe with her as it
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him, Take me an heifer of three yeeres olde, and pleaseth thee. Then Sarai dealt roughly with her:
a shee goate of three yeeres olde, and a ramme of wherefore she fled from her. 7 But the Angel of