Avram meets with malchizedek king of salem(shem). He returns all the captives to the king of sodom, but refuses to take any of the booty. Hashem then promises to protect avram and to give him many descendants. hashem then makes a covenant with him and tells him that his children will be enslaved and also redeemed. Sawra then gives her maidservant hagar to avram to bear him a child.