Genesis 14:17-24

Common English Bible

Abram blessed by Melchizedek

¹⁷After Abram returned from his attack on Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom came out to the Shaveh Valley (that is, the King’s Valley) to meet him. ¹⁸Now Melchizedek the king of Salem and the priest of El Elyon^[a] had brought bread and wine, ¹⁹and he blessed him,

“Bless Abram by El Elyon,
creator of heaven and earth;
²⁰bless El Elyon,
who gave you the victory over your enemies.”

Abram gave Melchizedek one-tenth of everything. ²¹Then the king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people and take the property for yourself.”

²²But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I promised the Lord, El Elyon, creator of heaven and earth, ²³that I wouldn’t take even a thread or a sandal strap from anything that was yours so that you couldn’t say, ‘I’m the one who made Abram rich.’ ²⁴The only exception is that the young men may keep whatever they have taken to eat, and the men who went with me—Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre—may keep their share.”

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