03 Lech Lecha

(1) ה' said to Abram, “Go forth from your native land and from your father’s house to the land that I will show you. (2) I will make of you a great nation,

And I will bless you;

I will make your name great,

And you shall be a blessing.
(3) I will bless those who bless you

And curse the one who curses you;

And all the families of the earth

Shall bless themselves by you.” (4) Abram went forth as ה' had commanded him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran. (5) Abram took his wife Sarai and his brother’s son Lot, and all the wealth that they had amassed, and the persons that they had acquired in Haran; and they set out for the land of Canaan. When they arrived in the land of Canaan, (6) Abram passed through the land as far as the site of Shechem, at the terebinth of Moreh. The Canaanites were then in the land. (7) ה' appeared to Abram and said, “I will assign this land to your offspring.” And he built an altar there to ה' who had appeared to him. (8) From there he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and he built there an altar to ה' and invoked ה' by name. (9) Then Abram journeyed by stages toward the Negeb.