¹⁷ And the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (which is the King’s Dale) after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and of the kings who were with him.

¹⁸ And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine; and he was the priest of the Most High God.

¹⁹ And he blessed him and said, “Blessed be Abram of the Most High God, possessor of heaven and earth;

²⁰ and blessed be the Most High God, who hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand.” And he gave him tithes of all.

²¹ And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, “Give me the persons, and take the goods for thyself.”

²² And Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up mine hand unto the Lord, the Most High God, the possessor of heaven and earth,

²³ that I will not take from a thread even to a shoe strap, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say,‘I have made Abram rich’”

²⁴ except only 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.”