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Avram and his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot proceed to Cnaan via Har̀n,

Avram builds an altar to Tv-rtz and spreads teachings about the One G-d.

Famine forces Avram and Sarai to travel to Egypt and go into deception,

Call themselves brother and sister and receive gifts from Pharaoh.

Upon returning to Cnaan, Lot separates from Abram and settles in the city of Sodom,

There Abram’s nephew is captured by the Mesopotamian king Kedarlaomer,

Abram and his companions rescue his nephew and defeat his enemies,

And then receives a blessing from Malki Tzedek, king of Shalem.

G-d makes an alliance with Avram, and foretells the prosperity of his posterity,

while foreseeing the exile, suffering and hardship of the Jewish people in captivity,

The L-rd promises the Holy Land as an everlasting inheritance for the people of Israel,

For Abram saw the One G-d through the shroud of idolatry.

The barren Sarai persuaded Abram’s husband to marry Hagar the maid,

She gave birth to Ishmael, who later became the progenitor of a great nation.

G-d decides that Avram’s name should be changed to Avraham and Sarai’s name to Sarah,

And He commanded Avram to be circumcised, a ‘sign of union’ between them, G-d called it.