הָלַךְ (ha.lakh)

The name of the third river is Hiddekel. This is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the…

They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves…

Yahweh God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal…

Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his…

After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and…

Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.

This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah…

The waters rose, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.

The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded.

The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of…

Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of…

Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife.…

Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I…

So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom…

Abram traveled, still going on toward the South.

Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go…

He went on his journeys from the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between…

Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, herds, and tents.

Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its width; for I will give it to you.”

They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way.

They took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

I will accept nothing from you except that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me:…

Abram said, “Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of…

He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where did you come from? Where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from the face…

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and…

The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.

The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.

Yahweh went his way as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.

and he said, “See now, my lords, please come into your servant’s house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can…

Come, let’s make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.”

Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a container of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her…

She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of…

God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the container with water, and gave the boy a drink.

He said, “Now take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a…

Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey; and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son.…

Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there. We will worship, and come…

Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife.…

Abraham said, “God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they both went together.

Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham…

So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba. Abraham lived at Beersheba.

But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”

The servant said to him, “What if the woman isn’t willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the…

If the woman isn’t willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this oath to me. Only you shall not bring my son…

The servant took ten of his master’s camels, and departed, having a variety of good things of his master’s with him. He…

but you shall go to my father’s house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’

I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not follow me?’

He said to me, ‘Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife…

I came today to the spring, and said, ‘Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go—

Behold, Rebekah is before you. Take her, and go, and let her be your master’s son’s wife, as Yahweh has spoken.”

Her brother and her mother said, “Let the young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten. After that she will go.”

He said to them, “Don’t hinder me, since Yahweh has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master.”

They called Rebekah, and said to her, “Will you go with this man?” She said, “I will go.”

Rebekah arose with her ladies. They rode on the camels, and followed the man. The servant took Rebekah, and went his…

She said to the servant, “Who is the man who is walking in the field to meet us?” The servant said, “It is my master.”…

The children struggled together within her. She said, “If it is like this, why do I live?” She went to inquire of…

Esau said, “Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?”

Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.

There was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to…

The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.

Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”

Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.

Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.

They rose up some time in the morning, and swore an oath to one another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from…

Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.

Go now to the flock and get me two good young goats from there. I will make them savory food for your father, such as…

His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.”

He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.

Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of…

Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and…

and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.

So Esau went to Ishmael, and took, in addition to the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s…

Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.

Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not…

Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to…

Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.

He said, “Behold, it is still the middle of the day, not time to gather the livestock together. Water the sheep, and go…

Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then…

When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.

Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have…

Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.

Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?”

Now come, let’s make a covenant, you and I. Let it be for a witness between me and you.”

Esau said, “Let’s take our journey, and let’s go, and I will go before you.”

But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone.”

Let’s arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was…

While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now…

Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, with his livestock, all his…

His brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.

Israel said to Joseph, “Aren’t your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.” He said…

He said to him, “Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again.”…

The man said, “They have left here, for I heard them say, ‘Let’s go to Dothan.’” Joseph went after his brothers, and…

Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘An evil animal has…

They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from…

Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh.” His…

Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house, until Shelah, my son, is grown…

She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians,…

If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of…

They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.

The man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers…

He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along…

Judah said to Israel, his father, “Send the boy with me, and we’ll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die,…

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do this: Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.

So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to them, “See that you don’t quarrel on the way.”

Israel said, “It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”

He blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my…

His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, “Behold, we are your servants.”