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.
The prescribed readings differ somewhat between the Ashkenazic
(European) and Sefardic (Middle Eastern and North African) Jewish
communities, and there are some suggested differences for Messianic
congregations; where appropriate, these differences are indicated by “A”, “S”, or “M”.
(Adapted from The Complete
Jewish Bible, translated by David H. Stern, ©1998, Jewish New
Testament Publications, Inc., Clarksville, MD.)
B'resheet
Parashah 1: B'resheet (In the beginning) 1:1-6:8
Chapter 1
1:1In the
beginning G-d created the heavens and the earth.
1:2Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the
surface of the deep. G-d’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the
waters.
1:3God said, "Let
there be light," and there was light.
1:4God saw the light, and saw that it was good. G-d divided the
light from the darkness. 1:5God called the
light Day, and the darkness he called Night. There was evening and
there was morning, one day.
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. G-d saw that it was good.
1:11God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding
seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in
it, on the earth," and it was so.
1:12The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after
their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their
kind: and G-d saw that it was good.
1:13There was evening and there was morning, a third day.
(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. G-d saw that it
was good.
1:19There was evening and there was
morning, a fourth day.
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. G-d saw that it was good.
1:22God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and
fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."
1:23There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
(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. G-d saw
that it was good.
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 G-d’s image he created him; male and female
he created them. 1:28God blessed
them. G-d said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and
subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of
the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
1:29God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed,
which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears
fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.
1:30To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky,
and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I
have given every green herb for food." And it was so.
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 G-d finished his work which he had made;
and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
2:3God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he
rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.
(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 G-d made
earth and the heavens. 2:5No plant of
the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet
sprung up; for the LORD G-d had not caused it to rain on the earth.
There was not a man to till the ground,
2:6but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole
surface of the ground. 2:7The LORD G-d
formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils
the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
2:8The LORD G-d planted a garden eastward, in `Eden, and there
he put the man whom he had formed.
2:9Out of the ground the LORD G-d made every tree to grow that
is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in
the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil. 2:10A river went out of `Eden to water the garden; and from there
it was parted, and became four heads.
2:11The name of the first is Pishon: this is the one which flows
through the whole land of Chavilah, where there is gold;
2:12and the gold of that land is good. There is aromatic resin
and the shoham stone.
2:13The name of the second river is Gichon: the same river that
flows through the whole land of Kush.
2:14The name of the third river is Chiddekel: this is the one
which flows in front of Ashshur. The fourth river is the Perat.
2:15The LORD G-d took the man, and put him into the garden of
`Eden to dress it and to keep it.
2:16The LORD G-d commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the
garden you may freely eat: 2:17but of the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for
in the day that you eat of it you will surely die."
2:18The LORD G-d said, "It is not good
that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for
him." 2:19Out of the ground the LORD G-d formed every animal of the
field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see
what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living
creature, that was its name. (S: iii)
2:20The man gave names to all cattle,
and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for
man there was not found a helper suitable for him.
2:21The LORD G-d caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he
slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its
place.
2:22He made the rib, which the LORD
G-d had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to the man.
2:23The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my
flesh. She will be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."
2:24Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and
will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
2:25They were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not
ashamed.
Chapter 3
3:1Now the serpent was more subtle
than any animal of the field which the LORD G-d had made. He said to
the woman, "Yes, has G-d said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the
garden?'"
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, G-d has said, 'You shall not eat of it, neither shall you
touch it, lest you die.'"
3:4The serpent said to the woman, "You
won't surely die, 3:5for G-d knows
that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be
like G-d, knowing good and evil."
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 G-d walking in the garden in
the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the
presence of the LORD G-d among the trees of the garden.
3:9The LORD G-d called to the man, and
said to him, "Where are you?"
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 G-d said to the woman,
"What is this you have done?"
The woman said, "The serpent deceived
me, and I ate."
3:14The LORD G-d said to the serpent,
"Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and
above every animal of the field. On your belly shall you go, and you
shall eat dust all the days of your life.
3:15I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your
offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will
bruise his heel."
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 G-d made coats of skins for Adam and for his wife,
and clothed them.
(A: v, S: iv)
3:22The LORD G-d said, "Behold, the man has become like one of
us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also
take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."
3:23Therefore the LORD G-d sent him forth from the garden of
`Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
3:24So he drove out the man; and he placed Keruvs at the east of
the garden of `Eden, and the flame of a sword which turned every way,
to guard the way to the tree of life.
Chapter 4
4:1The 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,
You wives of Lamekh, listen to my speech,
For I have slain a man for wounding me,
A young man for bruising me.
4:24If Kayin will
be avenged seven times,
Truly Lamekh seventy-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 G-d created man, he
made him in G-d’s likeness. 5:2He created
them male and female, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in
the day when they were created. 5:3Adam lived one
hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own
likeness, after his image, and named him Shet.
5:4The days of Adam after he became the father of Shet were
eight hundred years, and he became the father of sons and daughters.
5:5All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years,
then he died.
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 G-d after he became the father of
Metushelach three hundred years, and became the father of sons and
daughters.
5:23all the days of Chanokh were
three hundred sixty-five years.
5:24Chanokh walked with G-d, and he was not, for G-d took him.
(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 G-d’s sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and
they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.
6:3The LORD said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever,
because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty
years." 6:4The Nefilim were in the earth in those days, and also after
that, when G-d’s sons came to men's daughters. They bore children to
them: the same were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
(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.
- Haftarah B'resheet
- Yesha'yahu (Isaiah) 42:5-43:10 (A); 42:5-21(S)
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- B'rit
Chadasha for Parashah B'resheet
-
Mattityahu (Matthew) 1:1-17; 19:3-9
Lukas (Luke) 3:23-38; 10:1-12
Yochanan (John) 1:1-18
1 Chorinthians 6:15-20; 15:35-58
Romans 5:12-21
Ephesians 5:21-32
Colossians 1:14-17
1 Timothy 2:11-15
Messianic Jews1:1-3; 3:7-4:11; 11:1-7
2 Kefa 3:3-14
Revelation 21:1-5; 22:1-21
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 G-d.
6:10Noach became the father of three sons: Shem, Cham, and Yefet.
6:11The earth was corrupt before G-d, and the earth was filled
with violence.
6:12God saw the earth, and saw
that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the
earth.
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 G-d commanded him, so he did.
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 G-d commanded Noach.
7:10It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the
flood came on the earth. 7:11In the six
hundredth year of Noach's life, in the second month, on the
seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the
great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.
7:12The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
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
G-d commanded him; and the LORD shut him in.
(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 G-d made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters
subsided.
8:2The deep's fountains and the sky's
windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
8:3The waters receded from off the earth continually. After the
end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.
8:4The teivah rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth
day of the month, on Ararat's mountains.
8:5The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the
tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains
were seen.
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 G-d made he man.
9:7Be fruitful, and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the
earth, and multiply in it."
(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 G-d and every living creature of all
flesh that is on the earth." 9:17God said to
Noach, "This is the token of the covenant which I have established
between me and all flesh that is on the earth."
(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 G-d of Shem;
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 10
10:1Now 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.
- Haftarah Noach
- Yesha'yahu 54:1-55:5 (A); 54:1-10 (S); 52:13-55:5
(M)
-
- B'rit
Chadasha for Parashah Noach
-
Mattityahu 24:36-47
Lukas 17:26-37
Acts 2:1-16
1 Kefa 3:18-22
2 Kefa 2:5
Parashah 3: Lekh L'kha (Get Yourself Out) 12:1-17:27
Chapter 12
12:1Now 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 13
13:1Avram 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,
