Beresheet, starting at chapter 13
{13:1} Avram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had,
and Lot with him, into the South. {13:2} Avram was very rich in
cattle, in silver, and in gold. {13:3} He 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, {13:4} to the place of the altar,
which he had made there at the first. There Avram called on the name
of the LORD. {13:5} Lot also, who went with Avram, had flocks, and
herds, and tents. {13:6} The land was not able to bear them, that they
might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could
not live together. {13:7} There 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. {13:8} Avram said to Lot, "Please,
let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and
your herdsmen; for we are relatives. {13:9} Isn'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."
{13:10} Lot 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. {13:11} So Lot chose the Plain of the Yarden for
himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from
the other. {13:12} Avram lived in the land of Kana`an, and Lot lived
in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sedom.
{13:13} Now the men of Sedom were exceedingly wicked and sinners
against the LORD.
{13:14} The 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, {13:15} for all the
land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.
{13:16} I 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. {13:17} Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and
in the breadth of it; for I will give it to you."
{13:18} Avram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of
Mamre, which are in Chevron, and built an altar there to the LORD.
{14:1} It 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, {14:2} that 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). {14:3} All
these joined together in the valley of Siddim (the same is the Salt
Sea). {14:4} Twelve years they served Kedorla`omer, and in the
thirteenth year, they rebelled. {14:5} In 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, {14:6} and the Chori in their Mount Se`ir, to
El-Paran, which is by the wilderness. {14:7} They 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. {14:8}
There 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; {14:9} against 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. {14:10} Now 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. {14:11}
They took all the goods of Sedom and `Amorah, and all their food, and
went their way. {14:12} They took Lot, Avram's brother's son, who
lived in Sedom, and his goods, and departed.
{14:13} One 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. {14:14} When 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. {14:15} He 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. {14:16} He brought back all the goods, and also
brought back his relative, Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and
the people.
{14:17} The 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). {14:18}
Malki-Tzedek king of Shalem brought forth bread and wine: and he was
[1>]kohen[<1] of God Most High. {14:19} He blessed him, and said,
"Blessed be Avram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth:
{14:20} and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies
into your hand."
Avram gave him a tenth of all.
{14:21} The king of Sedom said to Avram, "Give me the people, and
take the goods to yourself."
{14:22} Avram said to the king of Sedom, "I have lifted up my hand
to the LORD, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth, {14:23}
that I will not take a thread nor a shoe-latchet nor anything that is
yours, lest you should say, 'I have made Avram rich.' {14:24} Except
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."
{15:1} After 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."
{15:2} Avram said, "Lord GOD, what will you give me, seeing I go
childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eli`ezer of Dammesek?"
{15:3} Avram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold,
one born in my house is my heir."
{15:4} Behold, 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." {15:5} The 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." {15:6} He
believed in the LORD; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.
{15:7} He said to him, "I am the LORD who brought you out of Ur of the
Kasdim, to give you this land to inherit it."
{15:8} He said, "Lord GOD, how will I know that I will inherit it?"
{15:9} He 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." {15:10} He took him all these, and divided them in the
middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn't divide
the birds. {15:11} The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and
Avram drove them away.
{15:12} When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Avram. Now
terror and great darkness fell on him. {15:13} He 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. {15:14} I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve.
Afterward they will come out with great substance. {15:15} But you
will go to your fathers in shalom. You will be buried in a good old
age. {15:16} In the fourth generation they will come here again, for
the iniquity of the Amori is not yet full." {15:17} It 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. {15:18} In
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: {15:19} the Kinim, the Kenizzi, the Kadmoni, {15:20}
the Chitti, the Perizzi, the Refa'im, {15:21} the Amori, the
Kana`anim, the Girgashi, and the Yevusi."
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Footnotes:
[1] {14:18} priest
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