Torah
Bereshit12
Genesis · Chapter 12
Now 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
So Abram departed, as 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram
was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite
was then in the land.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), who appeared unto him.
And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent,
having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and called upon the name of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Mitsrayim to sojourn there; for the famine
was grievous in the land.
And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Mitsrayim, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou
art a fair woman to look upon:
Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This
is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.
Say, I pray thee, thou
art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my nephesh shall live because of thee.
And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Mitsrayim, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she
was very fair.
The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram’s wife.
And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What
is this
that
thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she
was
thy wife?
Why saidst thou, She
is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take
her, and go thy way.
And Pharaoh commanded
his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.
Torah
Bereshit13
Genesis · Chapter 13
And Abram went up out of Mitsrayim, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
And Abram
was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai;
Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.
And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we
be brethren.
Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if
thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if
thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Yarden, that it
was well watered every where, before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah,
even as the garden of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), like the land of Mitsrayim, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Then Lot chose him all the plain of Yarden; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched
his tent toward Sodom.
But the men of Sodom
were wicked and sinners before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) exceedingly.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth,
then shall thy seed also be numbered.
Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.
Then Abram removed
his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which
is in Chevron, and built there an altar unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
Torah
Bereshit14
Genesis · Chapter 14
And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations;
That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.
All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.
Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that
were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-paran, which
is
by the wilderness.
And they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which
is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites that dwelt in Hazezon-tamar.
And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same
is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;
With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings with five.
And the vale of Siddim
was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.
And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.
And they took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these
were confederate with Abram.
And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained
servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued
them unto Dan.
And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which
is on the left hand of Damascus.
And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.
And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that
were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which
is the king’s dale.
And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he
was the kohen of the most high Elohim.
And he blessed him, and said, Blessed
be Abram of the most high Elohim, possessor of shamayim and earth:
And blessed be the most high Elohim, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.
And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), the most high Elohim, the possessor of shamayim and earth,
That I will not
take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that
is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:
Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.