to sourde and arise between the herdmen of Abram and the herdmen of Lot.
Then Abram said to Lot: Lo! this country is great and wide, I pray thee
to choose on which hand thou wilt go, and take it for thy meiny and thy
beasts. And let no strife be between me and thee, ne between my herdmen
ne thy herdmen. Lo! behold all the country is tofore thee, take which
thou wilt; if thou go on the right side, I shall go on the left side,
and if thou take the left, I will go on the right side. Then Lot beheld
the country and saw a fair plain toward flom Jordan, which was pleasant,
and the flood ran toward Sodom and Gomorrah, which was like a paradise,
and took that part for him. And Abram took toward the west, which was
beside the people of Canaan at the foot of mount Mamre. And Lot dwelled
in Sodom. The people of Sodom were worst of all people.

Our Lord said to Abram: Lift up thine eyes and see directly from the
place that thou art now in, from the north to the south, and from the
east to the west. All this land that thou seest I shall give thee, and
to thy seed for evermore. I shall make thy seed as powder or dust of the
earth, who that may number the dust of the earth shall number thy seed.
Arise therefore and walk the land in length and in breadth, for I shall
give it to thee. Abram moved then his tabernacle and dwelled in the
valley of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and set there his tabernacle. It
happened soon after that there was a war in that land, that four kings
warred again other five kings, which were of Sodom, Gomorrah and other.
And the four kings overthrew the five and slew them, and spoiled and
took all the substance of the country and took also with them Lot and
all his goods. And a man gat away from them and came to Abram, and told
him how that Lot was taken and led away. And then anon Abram did do
gather his people together, the number of three hundred and eighteen.
And followed after, and departed his people in two parties because they
should not escape. And Abram smote in among them, and slew the kings,
and rescued Lot and all his goods, and delivered the men of Sodom that
were taken and the women. And they of Sodom came against him, and
Melchisedech came and met with him, and offered to him bread and wine.
This Melchisedech was king and priest of Jerusalem and all the country,
and blessed Abram. And there Abram gave to him the tythes of all he had.
And the king of Sodom would that Abram should have had such prey as