These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the great flow of waters;

And after the birth of Arpachshad, Shem went on living for five hundred years, and had sons and daughters:

And Arpachshad was thirty-five years old when he became the father of Shelah:

And after the birth of Shelah, Arpachshad went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters:

And Shelah was thirty years old when he became the father of Eber:

And after the birth of Eber, Shelah went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters:

And Eber was thirty-four years old when he became the father of Peleg:

And after the birth of Peleg, Eber went on living for four hundred and thirty years, and had sons and daughters:

And Peleg was thirty years old when he became the father of Reu:

And after the birth of Reu, Peleg went on living for two hundred and nine years, and had sons and daughters:

And Reu was thirty-two years old when he became the father of Serug:

And after the birth of Serug, Reu went on living for two hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters:

And Serug was thirty years old when he became the father of Nahor:

And after the birth of Nahor, Serug went on living for two hundred years, and had sons and daughters:

And Nahor was twenty-nine years old when he became the father of Terah:

And after the birth of Terah, Nahor went on living for a hundred and nineteen years, and had sons and daughters:

And Terah was seventy years old when he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

These are the generations of Terah: Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.

And death came to Haran when he was with his father Terah in the land of his birth, Ur of the Chaldees.

And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah.

And Terah took Abram, his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram and they went out from Ur of the Chaldees, to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and were there for some time.

And all the years of Terah's life were two hundred and five: and Terah came to his end in Haran.

And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:

To them who are good to you will I give blessing, and on him who does you wrong will I put my curse: and you will become a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.

And Abram took Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother's son, and all their goods and the servants which they had got in Haran, and they went out to go to the land of Canaan.

And Abram went through the land till he came to Shechem, to the holy tree of Moreh. At that time, the Canaanites were still living in the land.

And moving on from there to the mountain on the east of Beth-el, he put up his tent, having Beth-el on the west and Ai on the east: and there he made an altar and gave worship to the name of the Lord.

Now when he came near to Egypt, he said to Sarai, his wife, Truly, you are a fair woman and beautiful to the eye;

And I am certain that when the men of Egypt see you, they will say, This is his wife: and they will put me to death and keep you.

Say, then, that you are my sister, and so it will be well with me because of you, and my life will be kept safe on your account.

And so it was that when Abram came into Egypt, the men of Egypt, looking on the woman, saw that she was fair.

And Pharaoh's great men, having seen her, said words in praise of her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into Pharaoh's house.

And because of her, he was good to Abram, and he had sheep and oxen and asses, and men-servants and women-servants, and camels.

And the Lord sent great troubles on Pharaoh's house because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

Then Pharaoh sent for Abram, and said, What have you done to me? why did you not say that she was your wife?

Why did you say that she was your sister? so that I took her for my wife: now, take your wife and go on your way.

And Pharaoh gave orders to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and all he had.

And Abram went up out of Egypt with his wife and all he had, and Lot with him, and they came in to the South.

Now Abram had great wealth of cattle and silver and gold.

To the place where he had made his first altar, and there Abram gave worship to the name of the Lord.

So that the land was not wide enough for the two of them: their property was so great that there was not room for them together.

And there was an argument between the keepers of Abram's cattle and the keepers of Lot's cattle: at that time the Canaanites and Perizzites were still living in the land.

Is not all the land before you? then let us go our separate ways: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; or if you take the right, I will go to the left.

And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar.

So Lot took for himself all the valley of Jordan, and went to the east, and they were parted from one another.

Abram went on living in the land of Canaan, and Lot went to the lowland towns, moving his tent as far as Sodom.

Now the men of Sodom were evil, and great sinners before the Lord.

And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.

And Abram, moving his tent, came and made his living-place by the holy tree of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and made an altar there to the Lord.

Now in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim,

They made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Birsha, king of Gomorrah, Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (which is Zoar).

All these came together in the valley of Siddim (which is the Salt Sea).

For twelve years they were under the rule of Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they put off his control.

Then they came back to En-mishpat (which is Kadesh), making waste all the country of the Amalekites and of the Amorites living in Hazazon-tamar.

And the king of Sodom with the king of Gomorrah and the king of Admah and the king of Zeboiim and the king of Bela (that is Zoar), went out, and put their forces in position in the valley of Siddim,

Against Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim, and Amraphel, king of Shinar, and Arioch, king of Ellasar: four kings against the five.

Now the valley of Siddim was full of holes of sticky earth; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were put to flight and came to their end there, but the rest got away to the mountain.

And one who had got away from the fight came and gave word of it to Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the holy tree of Mamre, the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and Aner, who were friends of Abram.

And Abram, hearing that his brother's son had been made a prisoner, took a band of his trained men, three hundred and eighteen of them, sons of his house, and went after them as far as Dan.

And separating his forces by night, he overcame them, putting them to flight and going after them as far as Hobah, which is on the north side of Damascus.

And when he was coming back after putting to flight Chedorlaomer and the other kings, he had a meeting with the king of Sodom in the valley of Shaveh, that is, the King's Valley.

And Melchizedek, king of Salem, the priest of the Most High God, took bread and wine,

And blessing him, said, May the blessing of the Most High God, maker of heaven and earth, be on Abram:

And let the Most High God be praised, who has given into your hands those who were against you. Then Abram gave him a tenth of all the goods he had taken.

And the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the prisoners and take the goods for yourself.

But Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have taken an oath to the Lord, the Most High God, maker of heaven and earth,

That I will not take so much as a thread or the cord of a shoe of yours; so that you may not say, I have given wealth to Abram:

Give me nothing but the food which the fighting-men who went with me have had; but let Aner and Eshcol and Mamre have their part of the goods.

After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Have no fear, Abram: I will keep you safe, and great will be your reward.

And Abram said, What will you give me? for I have no child and this Eliezer of Damascus will have all my wealth after me.

Then said the Lord, This man will not get the heritage, but a son of your body will have your property after you.

And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.

And he said to him, I am the Lord, who took you from Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land for your heritage.

And he said, Take a young cow of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a sheep of three years old, and a dove and a young pigeon.

Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep came on Abram, and a dark cloud of fear.

But I will be the judge of that nation whose servants they are, and they will come out from among them with great wealth.

As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; at the end of a long life you will be put in your last resting-place.

And in the fourth generation they will come back here; for at present the sin of the Amorite is not full.

Then when the sun went down and it was dark, he saw a smoking fire and a flaming light which went between the parts of the bodies.

In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar.

So after Abram had been living for ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai took Hagar, her Egyptian servant, and gave her to Abram for his wife.

And he went in to Hagar and she became with child, and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for her master's wife.

And Sarai said to Abram, May my wrong be on you: I gave you my servant for your wife and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for me: may the Lord be judge between you and me.

And an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water in the waste land, by the fountain on the way to Shur.

And he said, Hagar, Sarai's servant, where have you come from and where are you going? And she said, I am running away from Sarai, my master's wife.

And the angel of the Lord said, Your seed will be greatly increased so that it may not be numbered.

And the angel of the Lord said, See, you are with child and will give birth to a son, to whom you will give the name Ishmael, because the ears of the Lord were open to your sorrow.

And to the Lord who was talking with her she gave this name, You are a God who is seen; for she said, Have I not even here in the waste land had a vision of God and am still living?

So that fountain was named, Fountain of Life and Vision: it is between Kadesh and Bered.

And Hagar gave birth to a child, the son of Abram, to whom Abram gave the name of Ishmael.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,

As for me, my agreement is made with you, and you will be the father of nations without end.

No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations.

And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.

In the flesh of your private parts you are to undergo it, as a mark of the agreement between me and you.

Every male among you, from one generation to another, is to undergo circumcision when he is eight days old, with every servant whose birth takes place in your house, or for whom you gave money to someone of another country, and not of your seed.

And any male who does not undergo circumcision will be cut off from his people: my agreement has been broken by him.

And God said, As for Sarai, your wife, from now her name will be not Sarai, but Sarah.

And I will give her a blessing so that you will have a son by her: truly my blessing will be on her, and she will be the mother of nations: kings of peoples will be her offspring.