KJV King James Version
And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.
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Genesis 14:21
And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people, but take the goods for yourself.”
WEB World English Bible
The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people, and take the goods to yourself.”
ASV American Standard Version
And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And the king of Sodom saith unto Abram, ‘Give to me the persons, and the substance take to thyself,’
Surrounding context — Genesis 14
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, which 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 to thyself.
22 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,
23 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:
24 Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.
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