Hashem tells Avram to go from his father’s house to the place He will show him. Avram does so at the age of 75, with his extended family, including his nephew, Lot. But almost as soon as he gets there, there is a famine in the land, and he is forced to go down to Egypt to find food. Avram hides his wife Sarai in a box to protect her from the Egyptians, but she is found and taken by the Egyptians. They are punished with leprosy for this. Lot becomes rich because of Avram, but then the two go separate ways because their shepherds quarrel. Avram goes to Hevron, and Hashem promises to give the entire land of Canaan to him and his descendants. There is a war of the four kings against the five kings. Hashem makes the Brit Bein HaBetarim with Avram, where he is told to cut animals, but not birds, and let fire pass through them. Avram and Sarai have had no children for the 10 years that they have been in Canaan, so Avram married Hagar. Yishmael is born. Hashem tells Avram to circumcise himself and all the members of his household, which he does. Hashem changes Avram’s name to Avraham, and Sarai’s name to Sarah. Hashem promises Avraham that Yizchak will be born.
