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Haran died before his father Terach in the land where he was born, in Ur of the Kasdim.

Terach took his son Avram, his son Haran's son Lot, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Avram's wife; and they left Ur of the Kasdim to go to the land of Kena‘an. But when they came to Haran, they stayed there.

Avram took his wife Sarai, his brother's son Lot, and all their possessions which they had accumulated, as well as the people they had acquired in Haran; then they set out for the land of Kena‘an and entered the land of Kena‘an.

He left that place, went to the hill east of Beit-El and pitched his tent. With Beit-El to the west and ‘Ai to the east, he built an altar there and called on the name of Adonai .

When he came close to Egypt and was about to enter, he said to Sarai his wife, "Here now, I know that you are a good-looking woman;

so that when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife,' and kill me but keep you alive.

But Adonai inflicted great plagues on Pharaoh and his household because of Sarai Avram's wife.

So Pharaoh gave orders concerning him to his men, and they sent him on his way with his wife and everything he had.

Avram went up from Egypt — he, his wife and everything he had, and Lot with him — into the Negev.

As he went on his travels from the Negev, he came to Beit-El, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beit-El and ‘Ai,

Avram lived in the land of Kena‘an; and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, setting up his tent near S'dom.

Avram moved his tent and came to live by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hevron. There he built an altar to Adonai .

But as they left, they took Lot, Avram's brother's son, and his possessions; since he was living in S'dom.

When Avram heard that his nephew had been taken captive, he led out his trained men, who had been born in his house, 318 of them, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.

During the night he and his servants divided his forces against them, then attacked and pursued them all the way to Hovah, north of Dammesek.

He recovered all the goods and brought back his nephew Lot with his goods, together with the women and the other people.

After his return from slaughtering K'dorla‘omer and the kings with him, the king of S'dom went out to meet him in the Shaveh Valley, also known as the King's Valley.

It was after Avram had lived ten years in the land of Kena‘an that Sarai Avram's wife took Hagar the Egyptian, her slave-girl, and gave her to Avram her husband to be his wife.

He will be a wild donkey of a man, with his hand against everyone and everyone's hand against him, living his life at odds with all his kinsmen."

Avram fell on his face, and God continued speaking with him: