Parashot Indications At the beginning of each
parashah is its name and its included verses. Like the books of
the Tanakh themselves, each parashah is named for its
first words (the English translation of those words is supplied). At
the end of each parashah are given its haftarah and
B'rit Hadashah readings. Within each parashah are bold-face
italicized indicating where each of the 'aliyot begins (the
first 'aliyah begins at the start of the parashah). The
person who is to read the haftarah begins reading at “Maftir”
(concluding) and reads the concluding verses of the Torah
portion and then reads the Prophets portion.
B'resheetParashah 1: B'resheet (In the beginning) 1:1-6:8 Chapter 11:1In the
beginning 1:3God said, "Let
there be light," and there was light.
1:4God saw the light, and saw that it was good. 1:6God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters." 1:7God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse, and it was so. 1:8God called the expanse sky. There was evening and there was morning, a second day. 1:9God said, "Let
the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let
the dry land appear," and it was so.
1:10God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of
the waters he called Seas. (A: ii) 1:14God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to
divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for
seasons, and for days and years;
1:15and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give
light on the earth," and it was so.
1:16God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the
day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.
1:17God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the
earth,
1:18and to rule over the day and over
the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. 1:20God said,
"Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds
fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky."
1:21God created the large sea creatures, and every living
creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind,
and every winged bird after its kind. (A: iii)
1:24God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after
their kind, cattle, creeping things, and animals of the earth after
their kind," and it was so. 1:25God made the
animals of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their
kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. 1:26God said,
"Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and
over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing
that creeps on the earth." 1:27God created
man in his own image. In 1:31God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. Chapter 2
2:1The heavens and the earth were
finished, and all the host of them.
2:2On the seventh day (A: iv, S: ii)
2:4This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of
the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD
2:18The LORD Chapter 3
3:1Now the serpent was more subtle
than any animal of the field which the LORD
3:2The woman said to the serpent, "Of
the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat,
3:3but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the
garden,
3:4The serpent said to the woman, "You
won't surely die, 3:5for
3:6When the woman saw that the tree
was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the
tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit of it,
and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
3:7Both of their eyes were opened, and they knew that they were
naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
3:8They heard the voice of the LORD
3:9The LORD 3:10The man said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself." 3:11God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?" 3:12The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."
3:13The LORD The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
3:14The LORD 3:16To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you." 3:17To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. 3:18Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field. 3:19By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
3:20The man called his wife Chavah,
because she was the mother of all living.
3:21The LORD (A: v, S: iv)
3:22The LORD Chapter 44:1The man knew Chavah his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Kayin, and said, "I have gotten a man with the LORD's help." 4:2Again she gave birth, to Kayin's brother Hevel. Hevel was a keeper of sheep, but Kayin was a tiller of the ground. 4:3As time passed, it happened that Kayin brought an offering to the LORD from the fruit of the ground. 4:4Hevel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of the fat of it. The LORD respected Hevel and his offering, 4:5but he didn't respect Kayin and his offering. Kayin was very angry, and the expression on his face fell. 4:6The LORD said to Kayin, "Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen? 4:7If you do well, will it not be lifted up? If you don't do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it." 4:8Kayin said to Hevel, his brother, "Let's go into the field." It happened, when they were in the field, that Kayin rose up against Hevel, his brother, and killed him. 4:9The LORD said to Kayin, "Where is Hevel, your brother?" He said, "I don't know. Am I my brother's keeper?" 4:10The LORD said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground. 4:11Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. 4:12From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth." 4:13Kayin said to the LORD, "My punishment is greater than I can bear. 4:14Behold, you have driven me out this day from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me." 4:15The LORD said to him, "Therefore whoever slays Kayin, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." the LORD appointed a sign for Kayin, lest any finding him should strike him. 4:16Kayin went out from the LORD's presence, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of `Eden. 4:17Kayin knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Chanokh. He built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Chanokh. 4:18To Chanokh was born `Irad. `Irad became the father of Mechuya'el. Mechuya'el became the father of Metusha'el. Metusha'el became the father of Lamekh. (S: v) 4:19Lamekh took two wives: the name of the one was `Adah, and the name of the other Tzillah. 4:20`Adah gave birth to Yaval, who was the father of those who dwell in tents and have cattle. 4:21His brother's name was Yuval, who was the father of all who handle the harp and pipe. 4:22Tzillah also gave birth to Tuval-Kayin, the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron. Tuval-Kayin's sister was Na`amah. 4:23Lamekh said to his wives, "`Adah and Tzillah, Hear my voice, For I have slain a man for wounding me, 4:24If Kayin will
be avenged seven times, 4:25Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Shet. For, she said, "God has appointed me another child instead of Hevel, for Kayin killed him." 4:26There was also born a son to Shet, and he named him Enosh. Then men began to call on the LORD's name. Chapter 5(vi) 5:1This is the
book of the generations of Adam. In the day that 5:6Shet lived one hundred five years, and became the father of Enosh. 5:7Shet lived after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters. 5:8All the days of Shet were nine hundred twelve years, then he died. 5:9Enosh lived ninety years, and became the father of Kenan. 5:10Enosh lived after he became the father of Kenan, eight hundred fifteen years, and became the father of sons and daughters. 5:11All the days of Enosh were nine hundred five years, then he died. 5:12Kenan lived seventy years, and became the father of Mahalal'el. 5:13Kenan lived after he became the father of Mahalal'el eight hundred forty years, and became the father of sons and daughters 5:14and all the days of Kenan were nine hundred ten years, then he died. 5:15Mahalal'el lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Yered. 5:16Mahalal'el lived after he became the father of Yered eight hundred thirty years, and became the father of sons and daughters. 5:17All the days of Mahalal'el were eight hundred ninety-five years, then he died. 5:18Yered lived one hundred sixty-two years, and became the father of Chanokh. 5:19Yered lived after he became the father of Chanokh eight hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters. 5:20All the days of Yered were nine hundred sixty-two years, then he died.
5:21Chanokh lived sixty-five years,
and became the father of Metushelach.
5:22Chanokh walked with (vii) 5:25Metushelach lived one hundred eighty-seven years, and became the father of Lamekh. 5:26Metushelach lived after he became the father of Lamekh seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of sons and daughters. 5:27All the days of Metushelach were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died. 5:28Lamekh lived one hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of a son, 5:29and he named him Noach, saying, "This same will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD has cursed." 5:30Lamekh lived after he became the father of Noach five hundred ninety-five years, and became the father of sons and daughters. 5:31All the days of Lamekh were seven hundred seventy-seven years, then he died. 5:32Noach was five hundred years old, and Noach became the father of Shem, Cham, and Yefet. Chapter 6
6:1It happened, when men began to
multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to
them, 6:2that (Maftir) 6:5The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6:6The LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart. 6:7The LORD said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them." 6:8But Noach found favor in the LORD's eyes.
Parasha 2: Noach (Noah) 6:9-11:32
6:9This is the history of the
generations of Noach. Noach was a righteous man, blameless among the
people of his time. Noach walked with
6:13God said to Noach, "The end of all
flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence
through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
6:14Make a teivah of gofer wood. You shall make rooms in the
teivah, and shall seal it inside and outside with
kofer. 6:15This is how
you shall make it. The length of the teivah will be
three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height
of it thirty cubits. 6:16You shall
make a roof in the teivah, and to a cubit shall you
finish it upward. You shall set the door of the teivah
in the side of it. You shall make it with lower, second, and third
levels.
6:17I, even, I do bring the flood of
waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life
from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.
6:18But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come
into the teivah, you, your sons, your wife, and your
sons' wives with you. 6:19Of every
living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the
teivah, to keep them alive with you. They shall be
male and female. 6:20Of the birds
after their kind, of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping
thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come to
you, to keep them alive. 6:21Take with you
of all food that is eaten, and gather it to you; and it will be for
food for you, and for them." 6:22Thus Noach
did. According to all that Chapter 7(ii) 7:1The LORD said to Noach, "Come with all of your household into the teivah, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation. 7:2You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female. 7:3Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth. 7:4In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground." 7:5Noach did everything that the LORD commanded him.
7:6Noach was six hundred years old
when the flood of waters came on the earth.
7:7Noach went into the teivah with his sons,
his wife, and his sons' wives, because of the waters of the flood.
7:8Clean animals, animals that are not clean, birds, and
everything that creeps on the ground
7:9went by pairs to Noach into the teivah,
male and female, as
7:13In the same day Noach, and Shem,
Cham, and Yefet, the sons of Noach, and Noach's wife, and the three
wives of his sons with them, entered into the teivah;
7:14they, and every animal after its kind, all the cattle after
their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its
kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.
7:15They went to Noach into the teivah, by
pairs of all flesh with the breath of life in them.
7:16Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as
(iii) 7:17The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the teivah, and it was lifted up above the earth. 7:18The waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the earth; and the teivah floated on the surface of the waters. 7:19The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered. 7:20The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered. 7:21All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, cattle, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man. 7:22All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died. 7:23Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, cattle, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noach was left, and those who were with him in the teivah. 7:24The waters prevailed on the earth one hundred fifty days. Chapter 8
8:1God remembered Noach, all the
animals, and all the cattle that were with him in the
teivah; and 8:6It happened at the end of forty days, that Noach opened the window of the teivah which he had made, 8:7and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. 8:8He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the surface of the ground, 8:9but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the teivah; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the teivah. 8:10He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the teivah. 8:11The dove came back to him at evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noach knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. 8:12He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she didn't return to him any more. 8:13It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth. Noach removed the covering of the teivah, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried. 8:14In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. (iv) 8:15God spoke to Noach, saying, 8:16"Go forth from the teivah, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you. 8:17Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, cattle, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth." 8:18Noach went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him. 8:19Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went forth out of the teivah. 8:20Noach built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 8:21The LORD smelled the sweet savor. The LORD said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done. 8:22While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." Chapter 9
9:1God blessed Noach and his sons, and
said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
9:2The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal
of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that the ground
teems with, and all the fish of the sea are delivered into your hand.
9:3Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the
green herb, I have given everything to you.
9:4But flesh with the life of it, the blood of it, you shall not
eat. 9:5I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand
of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the
hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.
9:6Whoever sheds man's blood, by man will his blood be shed, for
in the image of (v)
9:8God spoke to Noach, and to his sons with him, saying,
9:9"As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and
with your offspring after you, 9:10and with
every living creature that is with you: the birds, the cattle, and
every animal of the earth with you. Of all that go out of the
teivah, even every animal of the earth.
9:11I will establish my covenant with you; neither will all flesh
be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither will there any
more be a flood to destroy the earth."
9:12God said, "This is the token of the covenant which I make
between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for
perpetual generations: 9:13I set my
rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for a sign of a covenant between
me and the earth. 9:14It will
happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be
seen in the cloud, 9:15and I will
remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living
creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to
destroy all flesh. 9:16The rainbow
will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the
everlasting covenant between (vi) 9:18The sons of Noach who went forth from the teivah were Shem, Cham, and Yefet. Cham is the father of Kana`an. 9:19These three were the sons of Noach, and from these, the whole earth was populated. 9:20Noach began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard. 9:21He drank of the wine, and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent. 9:22Cham, the father of Kana`an, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. 9:23Shem and Yefet took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn't see their father's nakedness. 9:24Noach awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him. 9:25He said, "Cursed be Kana`an; A servant of servants will he be to his brothers." 9:26He said, "Blessed be the LORD, the Let Kana`an be his servant. 9:27God enlarge Yefet, Let him dwell in the tents of Shem; Let Kana`an be his servant." 9:28Noach lived three hundred fifty years after the flood. 9:29All the days of Noach were nine hundred fifty years, then he died. Chapter 1010:1Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noach and of Shem, Cham, and Yefet. Sons were born to them after the flood. 10:2The sons of Yefet: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Yavan, Tuval, Meshekh, and Tiras. 10:3The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Rifat, and Togarmah. 10:4The sons of Yavan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. 10:5Of these were the isles of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations. 10:6The sons of Cham: Kush, Mitzrayim, Put, and Kana`an. 10:7The sons of Kush: Seva, Chavilah, Savtah, Ra`mah, and Savtekha. The sons of Ra`mah: Sheva and Dedan. 10:8Kush became the father of Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. 10:9He was a mighty hunter before the LORD. Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD." 10:10The beginning of his kingdom was Bavel, Erekh, Akkad, and Kalneh, in the land of Shin`ar. 10:11Out of that land he went forth into Ashshur, and built Nineveh, Rechovot-Ir, Kelach, 10:12and Resen between Nineveh and Kelach (the same is the great city). 10:13Mitzrayim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehavim, Naftuchim, 10:14Patrusim, Kasluchim (which the Pelishtim descended from), and Kaftorim. 10:15Kana`an became the father of Tzidon (his firstborn), Chet, 10:16the Yevusi, the Amori, the Girgashi, 10:17the Chivvi, the `Arki, the Sini, 10:18the Arvadi, the Tzemari, and the Chamati. Afterward the families of the Kana`anim were spread abroad. 10:19The border of the Kana`anim was from Tzidon, as you go toward Gerar, to `Aza; as you go toward Sedom, `Amorah, Admah, and Tzevoyim, to Lasha. 10:20These are the sons of Cham, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, in their nations. 10:21To Shem, the father of all the children of `Ever, the elder brother of Yefet, to him also were children born. 10:22The sons of Shem: `Elam, Ashshur, Arpakhshad, Lud, and Aram. 10:23The sons of Aram: `Utz, Chul, Geter, and Mash. 10:24Arpakhshad became the father of Shelach. Shelach became the father of `Ever. 10:25To `Ever were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days was the earth divided. His brother's name was Yoktan. 10:26Yoktan became the father of Almodad, Shelef, Chatzarmavat, Yerach, 10:27Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, 10:28`Oval, Avima'el, Sheva, 10:29Ofir, Chavilah, and Yovav. All these were the sons of Yoktan. 10:30Their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go toward Sefar, the mountain of the east. 10:31These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, after their nations. 10:32These are the families of the sons of Noach, after their generations, in their nations. Of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood. Chapter 11(vii) 11:1The whole earth was of one language and of one speech. 11:2It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shin`ar; and they lived there. 11:3They said one to another, "Come, let's make brick, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. 11:4They said, "Come, let's build us a city, and a tower, whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth." 11:5The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built. 11:6The LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do. 11:7Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." 11:8So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city. 11:9Therefore the name of it was called Bavel, because the LORD confused the language of all the earth, there. From there, the LORD scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth. 11:10This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old, and became the father of Arpakhshad two years after the flood. 11:11Shem lived after he became the father of Arpakhshad five hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters. 11:12Arpakhshad lived thirty-five years, and became the father of Shelach. 11:13Arpakhshad lived after he became the father of Shelach four hundred three years, and became the father of sons and daughters. 11:14Shelach lived thirty years, and became the father of `Ever: 11:15and Shelach lived after he became the father of `Ever four hundred three years, and became the father of sons and daughters. 11:16`Ever lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg. 11:17`Ever lived after he became the father of Peleg four hundred thirty years, and became the father of sons and daughters. 11:18Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Re`u. 11:19Peleg lived after he became the father of Re`u two hundred nine years, and became the father of sons and daughters. 11:20Re`u lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug. 11:21Re`u lived after he became the father of Serug two hundred seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters. 11:22Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nachor. 11:23Serug lived after he became the father of Nachor two hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters. 11:24Nachor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terach. 11:25Nachor lived after he became the father of Terach one hundred nineteen years, and became the father of sons and daughters. 11:26Terach lived seventy years, and became the father of Avram, Nachor, and Charan. 11:27Now this is the history of the generations of Terach. Terach became the father of Avram, Nachor, and Charan. Charan became the father of Lot. 11:28Charan died before his father Terach in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Kasdim. (Maftir) 11:29Avram and Nachor took wives. The name of Avram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nachor's wife, Milkah, the daughter of Charan who was also the father of Yiskah. 11:30Sarai was barren. She had no child. 11:31Terach took Avram his son, Lot the son of Charan, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Avram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Kasdim, to go into the land of Kana`an. They came to Charan, and lived there. 11:32The days of Terach were two hundred five years. Terach died in Charan.
Parashah 3: Lekh L'kha (Get Yourself Out) 12:1-17:27 Chapter 1212:1Now the LORD said to Avram, "Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you. 12:2I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you, and make your name great. You will be a blessing. 12:3I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. In you will all of the families of the earth be blessed." 12:4So Avram went, as the LORD had spoken to him. Lot went with him. Avram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Charan. 12:5Avram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls who they had gotten in Charan; and they went forth to go into the land of Kana`an. Into the land of Kana`an they came. 12:6Avram passed through the land to the place of Shekhem, to the oak of Moreh. The Kana`ani was then in the land. 12:7The LORD appeared to Avram, and said, "I will give this land to your seed." He built an altar there to the LORD, who appeared to him. 12:8He left from there to the mountain on the east of Beit-El, and pitched his tent, having Beit-El on the west, and `Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and called on the name of the LORD. 12:9Avram traveled, going on still toward the South. 12:10There was a famine in the land. Avram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was sore in the land. 12:11It happened, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look on. 12:12It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, 'This is his wife.' They will kill me, but they will save you alive. 12:13Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you." (ii) 12:14It happened that when Avram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. 12:15The princes of Par`oh saw her, and praised her to Par`oh; and the woman was taken into Par`oh's house. 12:16He dealt well with Avram for her sake. He had sheep, and oxen, and male donkeys, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and female donkeys, and camels. 12:17The LORD plagued Par`oh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Avram's wife. 12:18Par`oh called Avram, and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife? 12:19Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way." 12:20Par`oh gave men charge concerning him: and they brought him on the way, and his wife, and all that he had. Chapter 1313:1Avram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South. 13:2Avram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. 13:3He went on his journeys from the South even to Beit-El, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beit-El and `Ai, 13:4to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Avram called on the name of the LORD. (iii) 13:5Lot also, who went with Avram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. 13:6The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live together. 13:7There was a strife between the herdsmen of Avram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle: and the Kana`ani and the Perizzi lived then in the land. 13:8Avram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives. 13:9Isn't the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left." 13:10Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Yarden, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sedom and `Amorah, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Tzo`ar. 13:11So Lot chose the Plain of the Yarden for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other. 13:12Avram lived in the land of Kana`an, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sedom. 13:13Now the men of Sedom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against the LORD. 13:14The LORD said to Avram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward, 13:15for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever. 13:16I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered. 13:17Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it to you." 13:18Avram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Chevron, and built an altar there to the LORD. Chapter 14(iv) 14:1It happened in the days of Amrafel, king of Shin`ar, Aryokh, king of Ellasar, Kedorla`omer, king of `Elam, and Tid`al, king of Goyim, 14:2that they made war with Bera, king of Sedom, and with Birsha, king of `Amorah, Shin'av, king of Admah, and Shem'ever, king of Tzevoyim, and the king of Bela (the same is Tzo`ar). 14:3All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (the same is the Salt Sea). 14:4Twelve years they served Kedorla`omer, and in the thirteenth year, they rebelled. 14:5In the fourteenth year Kedorla`omer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Refa'im in `Ashterot-Karnayim, and the Zuzim in Cham, and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim, 14:6and the Chori in their Mount Se`ir, to El-Paran, which is by the wilderness. 14:7They returned, and came to En-mishpat (the same is Kadesh), and struck all the country of the `Amaleki, and also the Amori, that lived in Chatzatzon-Tamar. 14:8There went out the king of Sedom, and the king of `Amorah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Tzevoyim, and the king of Bela (the same is Tzo`ar); and they set the battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim; 14:9against Kedorla`omer king of `Elam, and Tid`al king of Goyim, and Amrafel king of Shin`ar, and Aryokh king of Ellasar; four kings against the five. 14:10Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sedom and `Amorah fled, and they fell there, and those who remained fled to the mountain. 14:11They took all the goods of Sedom and `Amorah, and all their food, and went their way. 14:12They took Lot, Avram's brother's son, who lived in Sedom, and his goods, and departed. 14:13One who had escaped came and told Avram, the Hebrew. Now he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amori, brother of Eshkol, and brother of `Aner; and these were allies of Avram. 14:14When Avram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan. 14:15He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Chovah, which is on the left hand of Dammesek. 14:16He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative, Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people. 14:17The king of Sedom went out to meet him, after his return from the slaughter of Kedorla`omer and the kings who were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (the same is the King's Valley). 14:18Malki-Tzedek king of Shalem brought forth bread and wine: and he was kohen of El `Elyon. 14:19He blessed him, and said, "Blessed be Avram of El `Elyon, possessor of heaven and earth: 14:20and blessed be El `Elyon, who has delivered your enemies into your hand." Avram gave him a tenth of all. (v) 14:21The king of Sedom said to Avram, "Give me the people, and take the goods to yourself." 14:22Avram said to the king of Sedom, "I have lifted up my hand to the LORD, El `Elyon, possessor of heaven and earth, 14:23that I will not take a thread nor a shoe-latchet nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, 'I have made Avram rich.' 14:24Except only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me, `Aner, Eshkol, and Mamre: let them take their portion." Chapter 1515:1After these things the word of the LORD came to Avram in a vision, saying, "Don't be afraid, Avram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward."
15:2Avram said, "Lord 15:4Behold, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, "This man will not be your heir, but he who will come forth out of your own body will be your heir." 15:5The LORD brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He said to Avram, "So shall your seed be." 15:6He believed in the LORD; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness. (vi) 15:7He said to him, "I am the LORD who brought you out of Ur of the Kasdim, to give you this land to inherit it."
15:8He said, "Lord 15:9He said to him, "Take me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon." 15:10He took him all these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn't divide the birds. 15:11The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Avram drove them away. 15:12When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Avram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him. 15:13He said to Avram, "Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years. 15:14I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great substance. 15:15But you will go to your fathers in shalom. You will be buried in a good old age. 15:16In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amori is not yet full." 15:17It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. 15:18In that day the LORD made a covenant with Avram, saying, "To your seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Perat: 15:19the Kinim, the Kenizzi, the Kadmoni, 15:20the Chitti, the Perizzi, the Refa'im, 15:21the Amori, the Kana`anim, the Girgashi, and the Yevusi." Chapter 1616:1Now Sarai, Avram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, a Mitzrian, whose name was Hagar. 16:2Sarai said to Avram," See now, the LORD has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Avram listened to the voice of Sarai. 16:3Sarai, Avram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Avram had lived ten years in the land of Kana`an, and gave her to Avram her husband to be his wife. 16:4He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. 16:5Sarai said to Avram, "This wrong is your fault. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. The LORD judge between me and you." |
