¹ 亞伯拉罕從那裡向南地遷去，寄居在加低斯和書珥中間的基拉耳。

² 亞伯拉罕稱他的妻撒拉為妹子，基拉耳王亞比米勒差人把撒拉取了去。

³ 但夜間，神來，在夢中對亞比米勒說：你是個死人哪！因為你取了那女人來；他原是別人的妻子。

⁴ 亞比米勒卻還沒有親近撒拉；他說：主阿，連有義的國，你也要毀滅麼？

⁵ 那人豈不是自己對我說他是我的妹子麼？就是女人也自己說：他是我的哥哥。我作這事是心正手潔的。

⁶ 神在夢中對他說：我知道你作這事是心中正直；我也攔阻了你，免得你得罪我，所以我不容你沾著他。

⁷ 現在你把這人的妻子歸還他；因為他是先知，他要為你禱告，使你存活。你若不歸還他，你當知道，你和你所有的人都必要死。

⁸ 亞比米勒清早起來，召了眾臣僕來，將這些事都說給他們聽，他們都甚懼怕。

⁹ 亞比米勒召了亞伯拉罕來，對他說：你怎麼向我這樣行呢？我在甚麼事上得罪了你，你竟使我和我國裡的人陷在大罪裡？你向我行不當行的事了！

¹⁰ 亞比米勒又對亞伯拉罕說：你見了甚麼才做這事呢？

¹¹ 亞伯拉罕說：我以為這地方的人總不懼怕神，必為我妻子的緣故殺我。

¹² 況且他也實在是我的妹子；他與我是同父異母，後來作了我的妻子。

¹³ 當神叫我離開父家、飄流在外的時候，我對他說：我們無論走到甚麼地方，你可以對人說：他是我的哥哥；這就是你待我的恩典了。

¹⁴ 亞比米勒把牛、羊、僕婢賜給亞伯拉罕，又把他的妻子撒拉歸還他。

¹⁵ 亞比米勒又說：看哪，我的地都在你面前，你可以隨意居住；

¹⁶ 又對撒拉說：我給你哥哥一千銀子，作為你在閤家人面前遮羞(原文作眼)的，你就在眾人面前沒有不是了。

¹⁷ 亞伯拉罕禱告神，神就醫好了亞比米勒和他的妻子，並他的眾女僕，他們便能生育。

¹⁸ 因耶和華為亞伯拉罕的妻子撒拉的緣故，已經使亞比米勒家中的婦人不能生育。

¹ It happened in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim,

² that they made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Birsha, king of Gomorrah, Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar).

³ All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (the same is the Salt Sea).

⁴ Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year, they rebelled.

⁵ In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

⁶ and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to Elparan, which is by the wilderness.

⁷ 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.

⁸ The king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, 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;

⁹ against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the five.

¹⁰ Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and those who remained fled to the hills.

¹¹ They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way.

¹² They took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

¹³ One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. Now he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and these were allies of Abram.

¹⁴ When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.

¹⁵ 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.

¹⁶ He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative, Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

¹⁷ The king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley).

¹⁸ Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High.

¹⁹ He blessed him, and said, "blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth:

²⁰ and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand." Abram gave him a tenth of all.

²¹ The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, and take the goods to yourself."

²² Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,

²³ that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, 'I have made Abram rich.'

²⁴ I will accept nothing from you except that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion."