Read Genesis 12:1-17:27 at Bible Gateway.
The Teaching Tools of Scripture
Genesis 1:1-2:3, The Teaching Tools of Scripture, part one and part two
Genesis 6, And the Strong Themes Teaching Tool
Genesis 1:1-6:8, 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)
Genesis 12:1-17:27 triennial Torah portions
Genesis 12:1-13:18, triennial Lech lecha, “Go forth from”
Genesis 14:1-24, triennial Amraphel “Amraphel”
Genesis 15:1-21, triennial B’mecheza “In a vision to say”
Genesis 16:1-16, triennial Sarai eshshet “Sarai his wife”
Genesis 17:1-27, triennial Vayhee Avram “When Abram”
Genesis 12:1-17:27 Chiastic structure
Download the fully expanded Genesis 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
Genesis 12, Bible for Beginners
Genesis 12:1-9, Chiastic structure: Abram the sojourner
Genesis 12:10-13:18, Abram’s faith tested and reaffirmed
Genesis 12:17, YHVH plagues Pharaoh’s house: history that prophesies
Genesis 13, Bible for Beginners
Genesis 13 and 14, Abram, a relinquisher of rights
Genesis 14, Bible for Beginners
Genesis 14:1-24, History of ancient kings
Genesis 14:1-17:27, Strong theme: the heirs of Abram’s house
Genesis 15, Bible for Beginners
Genesis 15:1-21, Belief reckoned as righteousness
Genesis 15, And the cutting of the covenant
Genesis 15 and 16, Abram believed God, from the ancient Hebrew pictographs
Genesis 16, Bible for Beginners
Genesis 16:2, A living house
Genesis 17, Bible for Beginners
Genesis 17:1-14, Chiastic structure
Genesis 17:1-27, Chiastic structure
Genesis 17:15-27, The promised seed by Sarah
Off-site studies
Lech lecha – Restoration of Torah
Lech lecha Torah pearls – Nehemia Gordon and Keith Johnson
Egypt and the Bible – Associates for Biblical Research
SCRIPTURE REVEALED SERIES by CHRISTINE MILLER:
THE LAW of LOVE | FINDING MESSIAH in TORAH | GENESIS in CHIASTIC STRUCTURE
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