Vayera

B'reisheet 18:1-22:24
B’reisheet 18:1 And יהוה appeared to him by the terebinth trees of Mamrĕ, while he was sitting in the tent door in the heat of the day.
B’reisheet 18:2 So he lifted his eyes and looked, and saw three men standing opposite him. And when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them, and bowed himself to the ground,
B’reisheet 18:3 and said, “יהוה, if I have now found favor in Your eyes, please do not pass Your servant by.
B’reisheet 18:4 “Please let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
B’reisheet 18:5 “And let me bring a piece of bread and refresh your hearts, and then go on, for this is why you have come to your servant.” And they said, “Do as you have said.”
B’reisheet 18:6 So Avraham ran into the tent to Sarah and said, “Hurry, make ready three measures of fine flour, knead it and make cakes.”
B’reisheet 18:7 And Avraham ran to the herd, took a tender and good calf, gave it to a young man, and he hurried to prepare it.
B’reisheet 18:8 And he took curds and milk and the calf which he had prepared, and set it before them, and he stood by them under the tree as they ate.
B’reisheet 18:9 And they said to him, “Where is Sarah your wife?” And he said, “See, in the tent.”
B’reisheet 18:10 And He said, “I shall certainly return to you according to the time of life, and see, Sarah your wife is to have a son!” And Sarah was listening in the tent door which was behind him.
B’reisheet 18:11 Now Avraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age, and Sarah was past the way of women.
B’reisheet 18:12 And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old, shall I have pleasure, my master being old too?”
B’reisheet 18:13 And יהוה said to Avraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Shall I truly have a child, since I am old?’
B’reisheet 18:14 “Is any matter too hard for יהוה? At the appointed time I am going to return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah is to have a son.”
B’reisheet 18:15 But Sarah denied it, saying, “I did not laugh,” for she was afraid. And He said, “No, but you did laugh!”
B’reisheet 18:16 And the men rose up from there and looked toward S’dom, and Avraham went with them to send them away.
B’reisheet 18:17 And יהוה said, “Shall I hide from Avraham what I am doing,
B’reisheet 18:18 since Avraham is certainly going to become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
B’reisheet 18:19 “For I have known him, so that he commands his children and his household after him, to guard the way of יהוה, to do righteousness and right-ruling, so that יהוה brings to Avraham what He has spoken to him.”
B’reisheet 18:20 And יהוה said, “Because the outcry against S’dom and `Amora is great, and because their sin is very heavy,
B’reisheet 18:21 “I am going down now to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me, and if not, I know.”
B’reisheet 18:22 So the men turned away from there and went toward S’dom, but יהוה still stood before Avraham.
B’reisheet 18:23 And Avraham drew near and said, “Would You also destroy the righteous with the wrong?
B’reisheet 18:24 “Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city, would You also destroy the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous that were in it?
B’reisheet 18:25 “Far be it from You to act in this way, to slay the righteous with the wrong, so that the righteous should be as the wrong. Far be it from You! Does the Judge of all the earth not do right?”
B’reisheet 18:26 And יהוה said, “If I find in S’dom fifty righteous within the city, then I shall spare all the place for their sakes.”
B’reisheet 18:27 And Avraham answered and said, “Look, please, I who am but dust and ashes have taken it upon myself to speak to יהוה,
B’reisheet 18:28 “Suppose there are five less than the fifty righteous, would You destroy all of the city for lack of five?” And He said, “If I find there forty-five, I do not destroy it.”
B’reisheet 18:29 And he spoke to Him yet again and said, “Suppose there are found forty?” And He said, “I would not do it for the sake of forty.”
B’reisheet 18:30 And he said, “Let not יהוה be displeased, and let me speak: Suppose there are found thirty?” And He said, “I would not do it if I find thirty there.”
B’reisheet 18:31 And he said, “Look, please, I have taken it upon myself to speak to יהוה: Suppose there are found twenty?” And He said, “I would not destroy it for the sake of twenty.”
B’reisheet 18:32 And he said, “Let not יהוה be displeased, and let me speak only this time: Suppose there are found ten?” And He said, “I would not destroy it for the sake of ten.”
B’reisheet 18:33 Then יהוה went away as soon as He had ended speaking to Avraham. And Avraham returned to his place.
B’reisheet 19:1 And the two messengers came to S’dom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of S’dom. And when Lot saw them, he rose up to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground,
B’reisheet 19:2 and he said, “Look, please my masters, please turn in to your servant’s house and spend the night, and wash your feet, and rise early and go your way.” And they said, “No, but let us spend the night in the open square.”
B’reisheet 19:3 But he urged them strongly, and they turned in to him and came into his house. And he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
B’reisheet 19:4 Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of S’dom, both old and young, all the people from every part, surrounded the house.
B’reisheet 19:5 And they called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, and let us ‘know’ them.”
B’reisheet 19:6 So Lot went out to them through the doorway, and shut the door behind him,
B’reisheet 19:7 and said, “Please, my brothers, do not do evil!
B’reisheet 19:8 “Look, please, I have two daughters who have not known a man. Please, let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you wish, only do no deed to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof.”
B’reisheet 19:9 But they said, “Stand back!” And they said, “This one came in to sojourn, and should he always judge? Now we are going to treat you worse than them.” So they pressed hard against the man Lot, and came near to break down the door.
B’reisheet 19:10 But the men reached out their hands and pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.
B’reisheet 19:11 Then they struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, and they wearied themselves to find the door.
B’reisheet 19:12 And the men said to Lot, “Have you anyone else here? A son-in-law, and your sons, and your daughters, and whomever you have in the city – bring them out of this place!
B’reisheet 19:13 “For we are going to destroy this place, because the cry against them has grown great before the face of יהוה, and יהוה has sent us to destroy it.”
B’reisheet 19:14 And Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, “Get up, get out of this place, for יהוה is going to destroy this city!” But to his sons-in-law he seemed to be as one joking.
B’reisheet 19:15 And when morning dawned, the messengers urged Lot to hurry, saying, “Get up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the punishment of the city.”
B’reisheet 19:16 And while he loitered, the men took hold of his hand, and his wife’s hand, and the hands of his two daughters, יהוה having compassion on him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.
B’reisheet 19:17 And it came to be, when they had brought them outside, that he said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed.”
B’reisheet 19:18 And Lot said to them, “Oh no, יהוה!
B’reisheet 19:19 “Look, please, your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have increased your kindness which you have shown me by saving my life, but I am unable to escape to the mountains, lest calamity overtake me and I die.
B’reisheet 19:20 “Look, please, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is small. Please let me escape there – is it not a small matter – and let my life be saved?”
B’reisheet 19:21 And He said to him, “Look, I have favored you concerning this matter also, without overthrowing this city for which you have spoken.
B’reisheet 19:22 “Hurry, escape there. For I am not able to do any deed until you arrive there.” So the name of the city was called Tsoʽar.
B’reisheet 19:23 The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot entered Tsoʽar.
B’reisheet 19:24 And יהוה rained sulphur and fire on S’dom and `Amora, from יהוה out of the heavens.
B’reisheet 19:25 So He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.
B’reisheet 19:26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a memorial of salt.
B’reisheet 19:27 And Avraham arose early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before יהוה,
B’reisheet 19:28 and he looked toward S’dom and `Amora, and toward all the land of the plain. And he looked and saw the smoke of the land which went up like the smoke of a furnace.
B’reisheet 19:29 Thus it came to be, when Elohim destroyed the cities of the plain, that Elohim remembered Avraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had dwelt.
B’reisheet 19:30 And Lot went up out of Tsoʽar and dwelt in the mountains, and his two daughters were with him, for he was afraid to dwell in Tsoʽar. And he and his two daughters dwelt in a cave.
B’reisheet 19:31 And the first-born said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man on the earth to come in to us, as is the way of all the earth.
B’reisheet 19:32 “Come, let us make our father drink wine and lie with him, so that we preserve the seed of our father.”
B’reisheet 19:33 So they made their father drink wine that night. And the first-born went in and lay with her father, and he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she arose.
B’reisheet 19:34 And it came to be on the next day that the first-born said to the younger, “See, I lay with my father last night. Let us make him drink wine tonight as well, and you go in and lie with him, so that we keep the seed of our father.”
B’reisheet 19:35 So they made their father drink wine that night as well. And the younger arose and lay with him, and he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she arose.
B’reisheet 19:36 Thus both the daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father.
B’reisheet 19:37 And the first-born bore a son and called his name Mo’aḇ, he is the father of the Mo’aḇites to this day.
B’reisheet 19:38 And the younger, she also bore a son and called his name Ben-Ammi, he is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.
B’reisheet 20:1 And Avraham set out from there to the land of the South, and dwelt between Qaḏĕsh and Shur, and stayed in Gerar.
B’reisheet 20:2 And Avraham said concerning Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” And Aḇimeleḵ sovereign of Gerar sent and took Sarah.
B’reisheet 20:3 But Elohim came to Aḇimeleḵ in a dream by night, and said to him, “See, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man’s wife.”
B’reisheet 20:4 However, Aḇimeleḵ had not come near her, and he said, “יהוה, would You slay a righteous nation also?
B’reisheet 20:5 “Did he not say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she, even she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and in the innocence of my hands I have done this.”
B’reisheet 20:6 And Elohim said to him in a dream, “Yea, I know that you did this in the integrity of your heart, and so I kept you from sinning against Me. For this reason I did not let you touch her.
B’reisheet 20:7 “And now, return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and let him pray for you and you live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall certainly die, you and all that are yours.”
B’reisheet 20:8 So Aḇimeleḵ rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and spoke all these words in their hearing. And the men were greatly frightened.
B’reisheet 20:9 And Aḇimeleḵ called Avraham and said to him, “What have you done to us? In what have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my reign a great sin? You have done matters to me that should not be done.”
B’reisheet 20:10 And Aḇimeleḵ said to Avraham, “What did you have in view, that you have done this matter?”
B’reisheet 20:11 And Avraham said, “Only because I said to myself, the fear of Elohim is not in this place, and they shall kill me for the sake of my wife.
B’reisheet 20:12 “And yet, she is truly my sister. She is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife.
B’reisheet 20:13 “And it came to be, when Elohim caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I said to her, ‘This is your kindness that you should do for me: in every place, wherever we go, say of me, “He is my brother.” ’ ”
B’reisheet 20:14 Then Aḇimeleḵ took sheep, and cattle, and male and female servants, and gave them to Avraham. And he returned Sarah his wife to him.
B’reisheet 20:15 And Aḇimeleḵ said, “See, my land is before you, dwell wherever it is good in your eyes.”
B’reisheet 20:16 And to Sarah he said, “See, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. See, it is to you a covering of eyes before all who are with you and before all others, and you are cleared before everyone.”
B’reisheet 20:17 And Avraham prayed to Elohim, and Elohim healed Aḇimeleḵ, and his wife, and his female servants, so they bore children,
B’reisheet 20:18 for יהוה had closed up all the wombs of the house of Aḇimeleḵ because of Sarah, Avraham’s wife.
B’reisheet 21:1 And יהוה visited Sarah as He had said, and יהוה did for Sarah as He had spoken.
B’reisheet 21:2 So Sarah conceived and bore Avraham a son in his old age, at the appointed time of which Elohim had spoken to him.
B’reisheet 21:3 And Avraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Yitz’chak.
B’reisheet 21:4 And Avraham circumcised his son Yitz’chak when he was eight days old, as Elohim had commanded him.
B’reisheet 21:5 And Avraham was one hundred years old when his son Yitz’chak was born to him.
B’reisheet 21:6 And Sarah said, “Elohim has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of it laughs with me.”
B’reisheet 21:7 And she said, “Who would have said to Avraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.”
B’reisheet 21:8 And the child grew and was weaned, and Avraham made a great feast on the day that Yitz’chak was weaned.
B’reisheet 21:9 And Sarah saw the son of Haḡar the Mitsrite, whom she had borne to Avraham, mocking.
B’reisheet 21:10 So she said to Avraham, “Drive out this female servant and her son, for the son of this female servant shall not inherit with my son, with Yitz’chak.”
B’reisheet 21:11 And the matter was very evil in the eyes of Avraham because of his son.
B’reisheet 21:12 But Elohim said to Avraham, “Let it not be evil in your eyes because of the boy and because of your female servant. Whatever Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice, for in Yitz’chak your seed is called.
B’reisheet 21:13 “And of the son of the female servant I also make a nation, because he is your seed.”
B’reisheet 21:14 And Avraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water, which he gave to Haḡar, putting it on her shoulder, also the boy, and sent her away. And she left and wandered in the Wilderness of Be’ĕrsheḇa.
B’reisheet 21:15 And the water in the skin was used up, and she placed the boy under one of the shrubs.
B’reisheet 21:16 And she went and sat down about a bowshot away, for she said, “Let me not see the death of the boy.” And she sat opposite him, and lifted her voice and wept.
B’reisheet 21:17 And Elohim heard the voice of the boy, and the messenger of Elohim called to Haḡar from the heavens, and said to her, “What is the matter with you, Haḡar? Do not fear, for Elohim has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
B’reisheet 21:18 “Arise, lift up the boy and hold him with your hand, for I make a great nation of him.”
B’reisheet 21:19 And Elohim opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she went and filled the skin with water, and gave the boy a drink.
B’reisheet 21:20 And Elohim was with the boy, and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.
B’reisheet 21:21 And he dwelt in the Wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Mitsrayim.
B’reisheet 21:22 And it came to be at that time that Aḇimeleḵ and Piḵol, the commander of his army, spoke to Avraham, saying, “Elohim is with you in all that you do.
B’reisheet 21:23 “And now, swear to me by Elohim, not to be untrue to me, to my offspring, or to my descendants. Do to me according to the kindness that I have done to you and to the land in which you have dwelt.”
B’reisheet 21:24 And Avraham said, “I swear.”
B’reisheet 21:25 And Avraham reproved Aḇimeleḵ because of a well of water which Aḇimeleḵ’s servants had seized.
B’reisheet 21:26 And Aḇimeleḵ said, “I do not know who has done this deed. Neither did you inform me, nor did I hear until today.”
B’reisheet 21:27 So Avraham took sheep and cattle and gave them to Aḇimeleḵ, and the two of them made a covenant.
B’reisheet 21:28 And Avraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
B’reisheet 21:29 And Aḇimeleḵ asked Avraham, “What are these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves?”
B’reisheet 21:30 And he said, “Take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, to be my witness that I have dug this well.”
B’reisheet 21:31 So he called that place Be’ĕrsheḇa, because the two of them swore an oath there.
B’reisheet 21:32 Thus they made a covenant at Be’ĕrsheḇa. And Aḇimeleḵ rose with Piḵol, the commander of his army, and they returned to the land of the Philistines.
B’reisheet 21:33 And he planted a tamarisk tree in Be’ĕrsheḇa, and there called on the Name of יהוה, the Everlasting Ěl.
B’reisheet 21:34 And Avraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.
B’reisheet 22:1 And it came to be after these events that Elohim tried Avraham, and said to him, “Avraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”
B’reisheet 22:2 And He said, “Take your son, now, your only son Yitz’chak, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriyah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I command you.”
B’reisheet 22:3 And Avraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Yitz’chak his son. And he split the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place which Elohim had commanded him.
B’reisheet 22:4 And on the third day Avraham lifted his eyes and saw the place from a distance.
B’reisheet 22:5 So Avraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey while the boy and I go over there and worship, and come back to you.”
B’reisheet 22:6 And Avraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Yitz’chak his son. And he took the fire in his hand, and a knife, and the two of them went together.
B’reisheet 22:7 And Yitz’chak spoke to Avraham his father and said, “My father!” And he said, “Here I am, my son.” And he said, “See, the fire and the wood! But where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”
B’reisheet 22:8 And Avraham said, “My son, Elohim does provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.” And the two of them went together.
B’reisheet 22:9 And they came to the place which Elohim had commanded him, and Avraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order. And he bound Yitz’chak his son and laid him on the altar, upon the wood.
B’reisheet 22:10 And Avraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son,
B’reisheet 22:11 but the Messenger of יהוה called to him from the heavens and said, “Avraham, Avraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”
B’reisheet 22:12 And He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy, nor touch him. For now I know that you fear Elohim, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”
B’reisheet 22:13 And Avraham lifted his eyes and looked and saw behind him a ram caught in a bush by its horns, and Avraham went and took the ram and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son.
B’reisheet 22:14 And Avraham called the name of the place, ‘יהוה Yireh,’ as it is said to this day, “On the mountain יהוה provides.”
B’reisheet 22:15 And the Messenger of יהוה called to Avraham a second time from the heavens,
B’reisheet 22:16 and said, “By Myself I have sworn, declares יהוה, because you have done this, and have not withheld your son, your only son,
B’reisheet 22:17 that I shall certainly bless you, and I shall certainly increase your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore, and let your seed possess the gate of their enemies.
B’reisheet 22:18 “And in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
B’reisheet 22:19 Then Avraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Be’ĕrsheḇa. And Avraham dwelt at Be’ĕrsheḇa.
B’reisheet 22:20 And it came to be after these events that it was reported to Avraham, saying, “See, Milkah too has borne children to your brother Naḥor:
B’reisheet 22:21 “Uts his first-born, and Buz his brother, and Qemu’ĕl the father of Aram,
B’reisheet 22:22 and Keseḏ, and Ḥazo, and Pildash, and Yiḏlaph, and Bethu’ĕl.”
B’reisheet 22:23 And Bethu’ĕl brought forth Riḇqah. These eight Milkah bore to Naḥor, Avraham’s brother.
B’reisheet 22:24 And his concubine, whose name was Re’uwmah, also bore Teḇaḥ, and Gaḥam, and Taḥash, and Maʽaḵah.