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He treated Avram well for her sake, giving him sheep, cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female slaves, and camels.

But the land could not support their living together, because their possessions were too great for them to remain together.

So Lot chose all the plain of the Yarden for himself, and Lot traveled eastward; thus they separated themselves from each other.

Then the kings of S'dom, ‘Amora, Admah, Tzvoyim and Bela (that is, Tzo‘ar) came out and arrayed themselves for battle in the Siddim Valley

(v) The king of S'dom said to Avram, "Give me the people, and keep the goods for yourself."

Adonai said to Avram, "Know this for certain: your descendants will be foreigners in a land that is not theirs. They will be slaves and held in oppression there four hundred years.

As for you, you will join your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.

Only in the fourth generation will your descendants come back here, because only then will the Emori be ripe for punishment."

"As for me, this is my covenant with you: you will be the father of many nations.

(vii) "I am establishing my covenant between me and you, along with your descendants after you, generation after generation, as an everlasting covenant, to be God for you and for your descendants after you.

God said to Avraham, "As for you, you are to keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you, generation after generation.

God said to Avraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you are not to call her Sarai [mockery]; her name is to be Sarah [princess].

God answered, "No, but Sarah your wife will bear you a son, and you are to call him Yitz'chak [laughter]. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.

But as for Yishma‘el, I have heard you. I have blessed him. I will make him fruitful and give him many descendants. He will father twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

and all the men in his household, both slaves born in his house and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him. Haftarah Lekh L'kha: Yesha‘yahu (Isaiah) 40:27–41:16 B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah Lekh L'kha: Acts 7:1–8; Romans 3:19–5:6; Galatians 3:15–18; 5:1–6; Colossians 2:11–15; Messianic Jews (Hebrews) 7:1–19; 11:8–12

Please let me send for some water, so that you can wash your feet; then rest under the tree,

Is anything too hard for Adonai ? At the time set for it, at this season next year, I will return to you; and Sarah will have a son."

For I have made myself known to him, so that he will give orders to his children and to his household after him to keep the way of Adonai and to do what is right and just, so that Adonai may bring about for Avraham what he has promised him."

Maybe there are fifty righteous people in the city; will you actually sweep the place away, and not forgive it for the sake of the fifty righteous who are there?

Adonai said, "If I find in S'dom fifty who are righteous, then I will forgive the whole place for their sake."