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He spoke to him yet again: "What if forty are found there?" He said, "For the sake of the forty I won't do it."

He said, "Here now, I have taken it upon myself to speak to A donai. What if twenty are found there?" He said, "For the sake of the twenty I won't destroy it."

He said, "I hope A donai won't be angry if I speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" He said, "For the sake of the ten I won't destroy it."

But he kept pressing them; so they went home with him; and he made them a meal, baking matzah for their supper, which they ate.

"Stand back!" they replied. "This guy came to live here, and now he's decided to play judge. For that we'll deal worse with you than with them!" Then they crowded in on Lot, in order to get close enough to break down the door.

When they had brought them out, he said, "Flee for your life! Don't look behind you, and don't stop anywhere in the plain, but escape to the hills! Otherwise you will be swept away."

Hurry, and escape to that place, because I can't do anything until you arrive there." For this reason the city was named Tzo‘ar [small].

Therefore, return the man's wife to him now. He is a prophet, and he will pray for you, so that you will live. But if you don't return her, know that you will certainly die — you and all who belong to you."

For Adonai had made every woman in Avimelekh's household infertile on account of Sarah Avraham's wife.

Adonai remembered Sarah as he had said, and Adonai did for Sarah what he had promised.

He lived in the Pa'ran Desert, and his mother chose a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

Avraham lived for a long time as a foreigner in the land of the P'lishtim.

Avraham got up early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, together with Yitz'chak his son. He cut the wood for the burnt offering, departed and went toward the place God had told him about.

Avraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it on Yitz'chak his son. Then he took in his hand the fire and the knife, and they both went on together.

Yitz'chak spoke to Avraham his father: "My father?" He answered, "Here I am, my son." He said, "I see the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"

Avraham replied, "God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son"; and they both went on together.

He said, "Don't lay your hand on the boy! Don't do anything to him! For now I know that you are a man who fears God, because you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."

His concubine, whose name was Re'umah, bore children also: Tevach, Gacham, Tachash and Ma‘akhah. Haftarah Vayera: M'lakhim Bet (2 Kings) 4:1–37 (A); 4:1–23 (S) B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah Vayera: Luke 17:26 –37; Romans 9:6 – 9; Galatians 4:21–31; Messianic Jews (Hebrews) 6:13–20; 11:13–19; Ya‘akov (James) 2:14–24; 2 Kefa (2 Peter) 2:4–10

Sarah died in Kiryat-Arba, also known as Hevron, in the land of Kena‘an; and Avraham came to mourn Sarah and weep for her.

"Listen to us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us, so choose any of our tombs to bury your dead — not one of us would refuse you his tomb for burying your dead."