save only that Better, as R.V. marg., "let there be nothing for me; only that, &c." The expression here used occurs again in Genesis 41:16, It might be expressed in colloquial language: "nothing at all, please, so far as I am concerned." Abram goes on to specify the two necessary exceptions, (1) a claim for the rations of his 318 followers: (2) a claim that an equitable share in the spoil should be assigned to his three confederates, mentioned in Genesis 14:13, who, we here learn for the first time, had joined in the dangers of the enterprise. According to the rights of war, all the booty belonged to Abram: and he magnanimously renounces his claim.

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