way as Jehovah ordered him, Lot alfo accompanied him. When Abram left Haran he was feventy-five Years old. He carried along with him Sarai his Wife, and Lot his Brother's Son, and all the Effects which they had acquired, and the Souls they had brought up in Haran: Thus they went out, that they might go into the Land of Canaan; fo they came unto this Land. Abram travell'd through the Land unto Sichem, by the Plain of Moreh; but by this Time the Canaanite had feized upon the Land. Now Jehovah appeared to Abram, and faid, I will give this Land to your Seed: So he built an Altar to Jehovah, who there appeared unto him. He, pulling up his Tent, travell'd from thence to a Mountain, lying Eaft from Bethel, where he pitched it betwixt Bethel on the West, and Hai on the Eaft. There he built an Altar to Jehovah, and called upon his Name. Then Abram went on travelling and going towards the South.

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Now there happened a Famine in the Land: So he went down to Egypt that he might travel there, upon Account of the Famine raging in the Land. As he came nigh the Entry into Egypt, he faid to Sarai his Wife, Behold, now I know that you are a Woman of a beautiful Countenance: So

when the Egyptians thall fee you, they will fay, This is his Wife, and kill me, that they may live with you. Say, I entreat you, that you are my Sifter; by which Means, Good fhall be done to me upon your Account, and my Soul fhall live in Favour with you. So when Abram entred into Egypt, the Egyptians faw that his Wife was very beautiful. Pharaoh's Princes alfo faw her, and they praised her to Pharaoh: So she was taken into Pharaoh's Family. Abram was kindly entertained upon her Account: He then poffeffed both Sheep, and Oxen, Jack-affes, and Men-fervants, Maid-servants, She-affes, and Camels. Now Jehovah chaftifed Pharaoh and his Family with remarkable Inquietudes, upon Account of Sarai, Abram's Wife: So Pharaoh called Abram and, faid, Wherefore did you this to me? Why did you not inform me, that the was your Wife? Why did you fay fhe is my Sifter? Might not I have taken her to be my Wife: However, take now your Wife (there he is) and go away. So Pharaob gave Orders to the Men concerning him, and they fent him away, with his Wife, and all that he had.

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● Abram came up out of Egypt, he, his

Wife, and all that he poffeffed, in Company with Lot, to the South. He now encreased vaftly in Stores, in Silver, and Gold. He travelled with his Troops from the South to Bethel, to where his Tent had formerly been, betwixt Bethel and Hai, where also he had before made an Altar ; and there he called upon the Name Jehovah. Lot alfo, who travelled with Abram, had Sheep, Oxen, and Tents. The Land was not fufficient for them to remain in Company; for their Riches being great, they could not ftay together. There had been alfo a Quarrel betwixt the Herdsmen of Abram's Cattle, and the Herdsmen of Lot's Cattle, and with the Canaanite and Perizite, the then Inhabitants of the Land: Upon which Abram faid to Lot, I beg of you, that there be no Quarrel betwixt me and you, or your Herdsmen and my Herdsmen, because we are Brothers. Is not all the Earth before you? Divide it, I entreat you: If you go to the left Hand, I go to the right; or if you choose the right, I go to the left. So Lot lifted up his Eyes, and faw that the Plain of Jordan was all well watered (before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrhe) like the Garden of Jehovah, or like

the Land of Egypt, nigh the Valley of Zoar. This whole Plain of Jordan Lot chose for himself; and proceeded to travel from the Eaft: So every Man parted from his Brother. Abram stay'd in the Land of Canaan; but Lot dwelt in the Cities of the Plain by Sodom, whofe Inhabitants were wicked, and finned against Jehovah exceedingly. But Jehovah faid to Abram, after that Lot had parted from him, Lift up your Eyes, and look from the Place where you are, Northward and Southward, Eastward and Weftward; because I fet apart for you and your Sced after you, for an Age, all the Land which you fee; I place your Seed as the Duft of the Earth; fo as, that if a Man can number the Duft of the Earth, it may be poffible for him to number your Seed alfo. Arife, walk hither and thither through the Land, by the Breadth and Length of it, for I have appointed it for you. Then Abram took up his Tent, and went to dwell in the Plain of Mamre by Hebron, and there he built an Altar to Jehovah.

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HEN Amraphel King of Shinar, Arioch King of Ellafar, Chedorlaomer King of Elam, and Tidal King of Gofim, made War with Bera King of Sodom, Barfha King of Gomorrha, Shinab King of Admah, Shemeber King of Zebojim, and the King of Bela or Zobar. They all met together in the Valley of Shiddim, which is now the Brackish Sea. They had ferved Chedorlaomer for twelve Years, and rebelled in the thirteenth But in the fourteenth Year Chedorlaomer, and the Kings that were with him, came and finote the Rephaims in Afhteroth-Karnaim, the Zufims defcended from them, the Emims in Shaveh Kirjathaim, and the Horims in Mount Seir, unto the Valley of Paran, nigh the Defart. They returned, and came to the Well Mishpat, now called Kadeh, and fmote all the Country of the Amalekites, and the Amorites, who dwelt in Hazezon-Hamar. So the King of Sodom, the King of Gomorrha, the King of Adma, the King of Zebojim, and the King of Bela, or Zohar, went out and gave them Battle in the Vale of Shiddim. With Chedorlaomer King of Elam, were Tidal King of Gojim, Amnaphel King