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garden of Yahweh, like the land of Mitsrayim, as you go to Zoar. So Lot chose the Plain of
the Yarden for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the
other. Abram lived in the land of Kayinan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and
moved his tent as far as Sedom. Now the men of Sedom were exceedingly wicked and
sinners against Yahweh.
Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, “Now, lift up your eyes,
and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and
westward, for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever. I
will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of
the earth, then your seed may also be numbered. Arise, walk through the land in its length
and in its breadth; for I will give it to you.”
Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in
Hebron [place of association], and built an altar there to Yahweh.

It happened in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Aryok, king of Ellasar,
Kedorlaomer, king of Eylam, and Tidal, king of Goyim, that they made war with Bera,
king of Sedom, and with Birsha, king of Amorah, Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber,
king of Zeboyim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar). All these joined together in the
valley of Siddim (the same is the Salt Sea). Twelve years they served Kedorlaomer, and in
the thirteenth year, they rebelled. In the fourteenth year Kedorlaomer came, and the kings
who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim in
Khawm, and the Emim in Shaweh Kiriathaim, and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to
Elparan, which is by the wilderness. They returned, and came to En Mishpat (the same is
Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in
Hazazon Tamar. The king of Sedom, and the king of Amorah, and the king of Admah, and
the king of Zeboyim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar) went out; and they set the
battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim; against Kedorlaomer king of Eylam,
and Tidal king of Goyim, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Aryok king of Ellasar; four
kings against the five. Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of
Sedom and Amorah fled, and they fell there, and those who remained fled to the hills.
They took all the goods of Sedom and Amorah, and all their food, and went their way.
They took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who lived in Sedom, and his goods, and departed.
One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. Now he lived by the oaks
of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshkol, and brother of Aner; and these were allies of
Abram. When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his trained men,
born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan. He divided
himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to
Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus. He brought back all the goods, and also

brought back his relative, Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

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