Torah. The Pentateuch of Moses in weekly chapters, in poetic form - страница 4

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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.

The Book of Being

Weekly chapter #4

Abraham, at the age of 99, is circumcised and G-d reveals Himself to him in the form of a human being,

For Abraham, the news that Sarah would give birth to a son in a year was the sweetest thing.

Abraham prays to G-d to forgive the city of Sodom, which is sinking deeper and deeper into debauchery.

The L-rd destroys Sodom, but angels save Lot and his daughters.

Lot’s daughters, having drunk their father, lay with him, and by him they gave birth,

Their sons later became the ancestors of the Moabites and Amonians.

G-d, as promised, gives Abraham and Sarah a son, for which they were devoted to Him,

The son is named Yitzchak and is circumcised on the 8th day, for the covenant has already been given.

G-d tests Avraham, commanding him to sacrifice his only son,

But He stops Abraham at the moment when the father is about to draw the knife on his son.

The lamb that got away was put on the altar instead of Yitzhak,

There are no coincidences in G-d’s world, you can’t understand it if you don’t understand.

Here we are talking about two great Righteous men, father and son – Abraham and Yitzhak, Who went themselves and led the Jewish people to G-d in different ways.

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