Genesis 14:14-24 ▼

14 And Abram hears that his brother has been taken captive, and he draws out his trained servants, three hundred and eighteen, and pursues to Dan.

15 And he divides himself against them by night, he and his servants, and strikes them, and pursues them to Hobah, which [is] at the left of Damascus;

16 and he brings back the whole of the substance, and he has also brought back his brother Lot and his substance, and also the women and the people.

17 And the king of Sodom goes out to meet him (after his turning back from the striking of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings who [are] with him), to the Valley of Shaveh, which [is] the king’s valley.

18 And Melchizedek king of Salem has brought out bread and wine, and he [is] priest of God Most High;

19 and he blesses him and says, “Blessed [is] Abram to God Most High, possessing the heavens and earth;

20 and blessed [is] God Most High, who has delivered your adversaries into your hand”; and he gives to him a tenth of all.

21 And the king of Sodom says to Abram, “Give to me the persons, and take the substance to yourself,”

22 and Abram says to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to YHWH, God Most High, possessing the heavens and earth—

23 from a thread even to a shoe-strap I do not take of anything which you have, that you do not say, I have made Abram rich;

24 save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who have gone with me—Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre—they take their portion.”