King James Version (KJV)
Genesis 14:21
“And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.”
Verse in context — Genesis 14
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And he blessed him, and said, Blessed [be] Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:
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And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
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And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.
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And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,
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That I will not [take] from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that [is] thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:
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The book of beginnings, describing creation, humanity’s fall, God’s promises, and the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph).
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