<P> Upon Abram's return, Sodom's king came out to meet with him in the Valley of Shaveh, the "king's dale". Also, Melchizedek king of Salem (Jerusalem), a priest of God Most High, brought out bread and wine and blessed Abram and God . Abram then gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything . The king of Sodom then offered to let Abram keep all the possessions if he would merely return his people . Abram refused any deal from the king of Sodom, other than the share to which his allies were entitled . </P> <P> The voice of the Lord came to Abram in a vision and repeated the promise of the land and descendants as numerous as the stars . Abram and God made a covenant ceremony, and God told of the future bondage of Israel in Egypt . God described to Abram the land that his offspring would claim: the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaims, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites . </P> <P> Abram and Sarai tried to make sense of how he would become a progenitor of nations, because after 10 years of living in Canaan, no child had been born . Sarai then offered her Egyptian handmaiden, Hagar, to Abram with the intention that she would bear him a son . </P> <P> After Hagar found she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress, Sarai . Sarai responded by mistreating Hagar, and Hagar fled into the wilderness . An angel spoke with Hagar at the fountain on the way to Shur . He instructed her to return to the camp of Abram, and that her son would be "a wild ass of a man; his hand shall be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the face of all his brethren ." She was told to call her son Ishmael . Hagar then called God who spoke to her "El - roi", ("Thou God seest me:" KJV). From that day onward, the well was called Beer - lahai - roi, ("The well of him that liveth and seeth me ." KJV margin). She then did as she was instructed by returning to her mistress in order to have her child . Abram was 86 years of age when Ishmael was born . </P>

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