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So Abram went forth as Yahweh had spoken to him; and Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

So Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions which they had accumulated, and the persons which they had acquired in Haran, and they departed to go forth to the land of Canaan; thus they came to the land of Canaan.

Then Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, "To your seed I will give this land." So he built an altar there to Yahweh who had appeared to him.

Now there was a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.

Please say that you are my sister so that it may go well with me because of you, and that I may live on account of you."

Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,' so that I took her for myself as a wife? So now, here is your wife, take her and go."

So Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they sent him away with his wife and all that belonged to him.

So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, he and his wife and all that belonged to him, and Lot with him.

And the land could not sustain them while living together, for their possessions were so abundant that they were not able to live together.

So Abram said to Lot, "Please let there be no strife between you and me, nor between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are brothers.

So Lot chose for himself all the valley of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed eastward. Thus they separated from each other.

Now the men of Sodom were evil and sinners, exceedingly so, against Yahweh.

And I will make your seed as the dust of the earth, so that if anyone can number the dust of the earth, then your seed can also be numbered.

So in the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, came and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim and the Zuzim in Ham and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,

So Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, and he led out his trained men, born in his house, 318 in number, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.

that I will not take a thread or a sandal strap or anything that is yours, so that you would not say, ‘I have made Abram rich.'

And He brought him outside and said, "Now look toward the heavens, and number the stars, if you are able to number them." And He said to him, "So shall your seed be."

So He said to him, "Bring Me a three year old heifer, and a three year old female goat, and a three year old ram, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon."

So Sarai said to Abram, "Now behold, Yahweh has shut my womb from bearing children. Please go in to my servant-woman; perhaps I will obtain children through her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

So he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. Then she saw that she had conceived, so her mistress became contemptible in her sight.