Beresheet, starting at chapter 19
{19:1} The two angels came to Sedom at evening. Lot sat in the gate
of Sedom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself
with his face to the [1>]eretz[<1], {19:2} and he said, "See now, my
lords, please turn aside into your servant's house, stay all night,
wash your feet, and you will rise up early, and go on your way."
They said, "No, but we will stay in the street all night."
{19:3} He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered
into his house. He made them a feast, and baked [2>]matzah[<2], and
they ate. {19:4} But before they lay down, the men of the city, the
men of Sedom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people
from every quarter. {19:5} They called to Lot, and said to him, "Where
are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that
we may have sex with them."
{19:6} Lot went out to them to the door, and shut the door after
him. {19:7} He said, "Please, my brothers, don't act so wickedly.
{19:8} See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them
out to you, and do you to them as is good in your eyes. Only don't do
anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my
roof."
{19:9} They said, "Stand back!" They said, "This one fellow came in
to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we
deal worse with you, than with them!" They pressed hard on the man,
even Lot, and drew near to break the door. {19:10} But the men put
forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the
door. {19:11} They struck the men who were at the door of the house
with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves
to find the door.
{19:12} The men said to Lot, "Do you have anybody else here?
Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you have in the
city, bring them out of the place: {19:13} for we will destroy this
place, because the cry of them is grown great before the LORD. The
LORD has sent us to destroy it."
{19:14} Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged
to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up! Get out of this place, for
the LORD will destroy the city."
But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking. {19:15} When the
morning arose, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, "Arise, take your
wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the
iniquity of the city." {19:16} But he lingered; and the men laid hold
on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two
daughters, the LORD being merciful to him; and they took him out, and
set him outside of the city. {19:17} It came to pass, when they had
taken them out, that he said, "Escape for your life! Don't look behind
you, neither stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountain, lest
you be consumed!"
{19:18} Lot said to them, "Oh, not so, my lord. {19:19} See now,
your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified
your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I
can't escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.
{19:20} See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one.
Oh let me escape there (isn't it a little one?), and my soul will
live."
{19:21} He said to him, "Behold, I have granted your request
concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of
which you have spoken. {19:22} Hurry, escape there, for I can't do
anything until you get there." Therefore the name of the city was
called Tzo`ar.
{19:23} The sun was risen on the [3>]eretz[<3] when Lot came to
Tzo`ar. {19:24} Then the LORD rained on Sedom and on `Amorah sulfur
and fire from the LORD out of the sky. {19:25} He overthrew those
cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that
which grew on the ground. {19:26} But his wife looked back from behind
him, and she became a pillar of salt.
{19:27} Avraham got up early in the morning to the place where he
had stood before the LORD. {19:28} He looked toward Sedom and `Amorah,
and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the
smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
{19:29} It happened, when God destroyed the cities of the plain,
that God remembered Avraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the
overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
{19:30} Lot went up out of Tzo`ar, and lived in the mountain, and
his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Tzo`ar. He
lived in a cave with his two daughters. {19:31} The firstborn said to
the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man in the
[4>]eretz[<4] to come in to us after the manner of all the
[5>]eretz[<5]. {19:32} Come, let's make our father drink wine, and we
will lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed." {19:33}
They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went
in, and lay with her father. He didn't know when she lay down, nor
when she arose. {19:34} It came to pass on the next day, that the
firstborn said to the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my
father. Let us make him drink wine again, tonight. You go in, and lie
with him, that we may preserve our father's seed." {19:35} They made
their father drink wine that night also. The younger arose, and lay
with him. He didn't know when she lay down, nor when she arose.
{19:36} Thus both of Lot's daughters were with child by their father.
{19:37} The firstborn bore a son, and named him Mo'av. The same is the
father of the Mo`avim to this day. {19:38} The younger also bore a
son, and called his name Ben-`Ammi. The same is the father of the
children of `Ammon to this day.
{20:1} Avraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and
lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foriegner in Gerar.
{20:2} Avraham said about Sarah his wife, "She is my sister."
Avimelekh king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah. {20:3} But God came to
Avimelekh in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Behold, you are a
dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken. For she is a man's
wife."
{20:4} Now Avimelekh had not come near her. He said, "Lord, will you
kill even a righteous nation? {20:5} Didn't he tell me, 'She is my
sister?' She, even she herself said, 'He is my brother.' In the
integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands have I done this."
{20:6} God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that in the
integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you
from sinning against me. Therefore I didn't allow you to touch her.
{20:7} Now therefore, restore the man's wife. For he is a prophet, and
he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don't restore her,
know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours."
{20:8} Avimelekh rose early in the morning, and called all his
servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were very
scared. {20:9} Then Avimelekh called Avraham, and said to him, "What
have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have
brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me
that ought not to be done!" {20:10} Avimelekh said to Avraham, "What
did you see, that you have done this thing?"
{20:11} Avraham said, "Because I thought, 'Surely the fear of God is
not in this place. They will kill me for my wife's sake.' {20:12}
Moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not
the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. {20:13} It
happened, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I
said to her, 'This is your kindness which you shall show to me.
Everywhere that we go, say of me, "He is my brother."'"
{20:14} Avimelekh took sheep and oxen, men-servants and
women-servants, and gave them to Avraham, and restored Sarah, his wife
to him. {20:15} Avimelekh said, "Behold, my land is before you. Dwell
where it pleases you." {20:16} To Sarah he said, "Behold, I have given
your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a
covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are
vindicated."
{20:17} Avraham prayed to God. God healed Avimelekh, and his wife,
and his maid-servants, and they bore children. {20:18} For the LORD
had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Avimelekh, because
of Sarah, Avraham's wife.
{21:1} The LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to
Sarah as he had spoken. {21:2} Sarah conceived, and bore Avraham a son
in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. {21:3}
Avraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bare to him,
Yitzchak. {21:4} Avraham circumcised his son, Yitzchak, when he was
eight days old, as God had commanded him. {21:5} Avraham was one
hundred years old when his son, Yitzchak, was born to him. {21:6}
Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with
me." {21:7} She said, "Who would have said to Avraham, that Sarah
would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age."
{21:8} The child grew, and was weaned. Avraham made a great feast on
the day that Yitzchak was weaned. {21:9} Sarah saw the son of Hagar
the Mitzrian, whom she had borne to Avraham, mocking. {21:10}
Therefore she said to Avraham, "Cast out this handmaid and her son!
For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, even with
Yitzchak."
{21:11} The thing was very grievous in Avraham's sight on account of
his son. {21:12} God said to Avraham, "Don't let it be grievous in
your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all
that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Yitzchak will
your seed be called. {21:13} Also of the son of the handmaid will I
make a nation, because he is your seed." {21:14} Avraham rose up early
in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to
Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and gave her the child, and sent
her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Be'er-Sheva.
{21:15} The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child
under one of the shrubs. {21:16} She went and sat down opposite him, a
good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Don't let me see
the death of the child." She sat over against him, and lifted up her
voice, and wept. {21:17} God heard the voice of the boy.
The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her,
"What ails you, Hagar? Don't be afraid. For God has heard the voice of
the boy where he is. {21:18} Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in
your hand. For I will make him a great nation."
{21:19} God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went,
filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink. {21:20} God was
with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and became, as
he grew up, an archer. {21:21} He lived in the wilderness of Paran.
His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Mitzrayim.
{21:22} It happened at that time, that Avimelekh and Pikhol the
captain of his host spoke to Avraham, saying, "God is with you in all
that you do. {21:23} Now therefore swear to me here by God that you
will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son.
But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to
me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner."
{21:24} Avraham said, "I will swear." {21:25} Avraham complained to
Avimelekh because of a water well, which Avimelekh's servants had
violently taken away. {21:26} Avimelekh said, "I don't know who has
done this thing. Neither did you tell me, neither did I hear of it,
until today."
{21:27} Avraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Avimelekh.
Those two made a covenant. {21:28} Avraham set seven ewe lambs of the
flock by themselves. {21:29} Avimelekh said to Avraham, "What do these
seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?"
{21:30} He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand,
that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well." {21:31}
Therefore he called that place Be'er-Sheva, because they both swore
there. {21:32} So they made a covenant at Be'er-Sheva. Avimelekh rose
up with Pikhol, the captain of his host, and they returned into the
land of the Pelishtim. {21:33} Avraham planted a tamarisk tree in
Be'er-Sheva, and called there on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting
God. {21:34} Avraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Pelishtim
many days.
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Footnotes:
[1] {19:1} earth
[2] {19:3} unleavened bread
[3] {19:23} earth
[4] {19:31} earth
[5] {19:31} earth
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