Read Genesis 12:1-17:27 at Bible Gateway.
The teaching tools of scripture
Gen 1:1-2:3 and the teaching tools of scripture part one and part two
Gen 1:1-6:8 and finding the topic themes of scripture
Hebrew paragraph divisions
12:1-9 {p} Promise of land and descendants
12:10-13:18 {p} Abram’s faith in the promise tested + promise reaffirmed
14:1-24 {s} Signs of Messiah: victory over death, Melchizedek, bread and wine
15:1-21 {s} Promise reaffirmed by covenant
16:1-16 {s} Abram’s faith in the promise tested (Hagar and Ishmael)
17:1-14 {s} Circumcision, sign of the covenant, given
17:15-27 {p} Promise given of seed through Sarah (Isaac)
Strong themes of the parashah
12:1-9 {p} Promise of land and descendants
12:10-13:18 {p} Abram’s faith in the promise tested (famine in the land/ Egypt) + promise reaffirmed
14:1-17:27 {sx4+p} The Promised Seed his heir, not his father’s house (Lot) nor his house (Eliezer) nor his flesh (Ishmael)
Gen 12:1-17:27 triennial Torah portions
Gen 12:1-13:18, triennial Lech lecha, “Go forth from”
Gen 14:1-24, triennial Amraphel “Amraphel”
Gen 15:1-21, triennial B’mecheza “In a vision to say”
Gen 16:1-16, triennial Sarai eshshet “Sarai his wife”
Gen 17:1-27, triennial Vayhee Avram “When Abram”
Gen 12:1-17:27 Chiastic structure
Download the fully expanded Gen 12:1-17:27 Lech lecha chiasm pdf.
Theme of the parashah
The promise to Abram given, tested, confirmed.
Finding Messiah in Lech lecha
Additional readings for this parashah
Studies in Lech lecha
Gen 12:1-9, Chiastic structure: Abram the sojourner
Gen 12:10-13:18, Abram’s faith tested and reaffirmed
Gen 12:17, YHVH plagues Pharaoh’s house: history that prophesies
Gen 13 and 14, Abram, a relinquisher of rights
Gen 14:1-24, History of ancient kings
Gen 14:1-17:27, Strong theme: the heirs of Abram’s house
Gen 15:1-21, Belief reckoned as righteousness
Gen 15, And the cutting of the covenant
Gen 15 and 16, Abram believed God, from the ancient Hebrew pictographs
Gen 16:2, A living house
Gen 17:1-14, Chiastic structure
Gen 17:1-27, Chiastic structure
Gen 17:15-27, The promised seed by Sarah
For further study off site
Lech lecha – Restoration of Torah
Lech lecha Torah pearls – Nehemia Gordon and Keith Johnson
Egypt and the Bible – Associates for Biblical Research
SCRIPTURE REVEALED BOOKS by CHRISTINE MILLER:
THE LAW of LOVE | FINDING MESSIAH in TORAH | GENESIS in CHIASTIC STRUCTURE
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