¹ 这事以後，耶和华在异象中有话对亚伯兰说：亚伯兰，你不要惧怕！我是你的盾牌，必大大的赏赐你。

² 亚伯兰说：主耶和华阿，我既无子，你还赐我甚麽呢？并且要承受我家业的是大马色人以利以谢。

³ 亚伯兰又说：你没有给我儿子；那生在我家中的人就是我的後嗣。

⁴ 耶和华又有话对他说：这人必不成为你的後嗣；你本身所生的才成为你的後嗣。

⁵ 於是领他走到外边，说：你向天观看，数算众星，能数得过来麽？又对他说：你的後裔将要如此。

⁶ 亚伯兰信耶和华，耶和华就以此为他的义。

⁷ 耶和华又对他说：我是耶和华，曾领你出了迦勒底的吾珥，为要将这地赐你为业。

⁸ 亚伯兰说：主耶和华阿，我怎能知道必得这地为业呢？

⁹ 他说：你为我取一只三年的母牛，一只三年的母山羊，一只三年的公绵羊，一只斑鸠，一只雏鸽。

¹⁰ 亚伯兰就取了这些来，每样劈开，分成两半，一半对着一半地摆列，只有鸟没有劈开。

¹¹ 有鸷鸟下来，落在那死畜的肉上，亚伯兰就把他吓飞了。

¹² 日头正落的时候，亚伯兰沉沉地睡了；忽然有惊人的大黑暗落在他身上。

¹³ 耶和华对亚伯兰说：你要的确知道，你的後裔必寄居别人的地，又服事那地的人；那地的人要苦待他们四百年。

¹⁴ 并且他们所要服事的那国，我要惩罚，後来他们必带着许多财物从那里出来。

¹⁵ 但你要享大寿数，平平安安地归到你列祖那里，被人埋葬。

¹⁶ 到了第四代，他们必回到此地，因为亚摩利人的罪孽还没有满盈。

¹⁷ 日落天黑，不料有冒烟的炉并烧着的火把从那些肉块中经过。

¹⁸ 当那日，耶和华与亚伯兰立约，说：我已赐给你的後裔，从埃及河直到伯拉大河之地，

¹⁹ 就是基尼人、基尼洗人、甲摩尼人、

²⁰ 赫人、比利洗人、利乏音人、

²¹ 亚摩利人、迦南人、革迦撒人、耶布斯人之地。

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."