Torah Portion Week 3, 4 & 5 Genesis 12:1 – 25:18 Study Notes 2026 – 2027

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Torah Portion Week 3 4 5 (26-27)

Gen 12:1 – 25:18

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Before reading: Seed of Abraham

12:4 – Read Jasher 12:1-13:5

Summary:

  1. Abram is imprisoned by the king (Nimrod) for opposing idolatry
  2. Royal council decrees death by burning for despising the gods
  3. Abram and his brother Haran are cast into a fiery furnace
  4. God miraculously delivers Abram; he is unharmed in the fire
  5. Haran dies because his heart was not fully with God
  6. Many witnesses see the miracle; the king is astonished
  7. Abram testifies that God alone saved him; people honor God
  8. Abram is given gifts, servants (including Eliezer), and followers (~300 men)
  9. Abram returns home and begins turning people to serve God
  10. Nimrod later dreams of Abram’s future power and threat
  11. Wise men interpret the dream: Abram’s descendants will overthrow kingdoms
  12. Nimrod secretly plans to kill Abram
  13. Eliezer warns Abram; he flees and hides with Noah and Shem
  14. Abram urges Terah to leave and abandon vain pursuits
  15. Terah agrees; family departs Ur toward Canaan, settles temporarily in Haran
  16. Abram gains followers in Haran and teaches God’s ways
  17. God appears to Abram, promises blessing, protection, and multiplication
  18. Abram obeys and journeys toward the land of Canaan

Would you just get up and go at the command of Yahuah?

  • Verses supporting ‘acting at his command’

12:5 – Jasher 9:1-3 (niece and nephew)

12:12 – Not a lie – Song 4:9 interlinear

12:20 – Writings of Abraham 60-75 (61-76)

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13:2 – He came out rich, just like the Israelites did Exo 12:35-38

13:10 – Sodom used to be like the Garden of Eden (Septuagint Gen 13:10 – Targums say the same) – The land was plenteous and this is what happened: Eze 16

13:12 – Lot separating – Writings of Abraham 80 (81)

13:13 – Sins of Sodom: Jasher 18:11-15

  • Solstice/Equinox pagan parties?

13:14 – Sometimes division is from Yah – Acts 15:36-41

13:15 – That land IS the land of inheritance; I believe N.Jerusalem will rest there. Zech 12

13:16 – Dust – Physical

  • Sand – Borders and subdues the seas (peoples/chaos)
  • Stars – Heavenly (spiritual, authority, orderly)
  • (Will go over more in ch 15)

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14:14 – His nephew is now his brother (Hebrew language)

14:15 – Real battle for middle earth (Rephaim – giants)

14:16 – Just think about the kind of Power YHWH gave Abraham and his men; just like Levi and Simeon with Sheckem… and other instances – Can he do the same with us? Of course, he never changes.

14:18 – Melchizedek – Jasher 16:11-12

14:24 – Abraham was tested in this way:

  • He left all he had to serve Yahuah, are we willing?

*He restored all the goods to their rightful owners, rather than taking for himself*

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15:1 – WORD of Yahuah visited him – John 1 and others

(Abraham saw my day) Writings of Abraham 143 (159)

15:5 – Identity of the Stars Enoch 43

15:6 – Many will isolate this verse and make entire doctrines out of it, when Gen 26:5 is also true. Hebrews 11, Gen 26 and James 2

15:8 – Show borders – pretty close to the space needed for New Jerusalem!

15:13 – 400 years here

15:16 – Iniquity full yet?

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16:6 – Writings of Abraham 107 (125)

=Jasher 16:23-33

16:12 – wild man (Arab)

  • “He will be like a wild desert animal of a man, untamed, independent, and in constant tension with others.”

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17:1 – Be perfect: Matt 5:43-48

17:14 – Circumcision of the heart and physical – Deut 10, 1 Cor 7, Acts 16, 2 Pet 3

17:15 – Just as Abram was given a new name, Abraham, and Sarai to Sarah, we will receive a

new name as well: Rev 2:17

17:23 – No delay

Torah Portion Week 4

VAYERA – “and he appeared” 18:1-22:24 (24-25)

The promise of Isaac, Sodom and Gomorroah, Lot, The Binding of Isaac

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 Bowed to the “Angel” Just like Joshua did and was not corrected – verses

4-8 – Deeds of Abraham (hospitality) – verses

18:7 – RAN 

18:8 – Milk and meat (is okay)

18:14 – ‘Time appointed’ (Moed)

  • Spring?
  • End-times birth – verses

18:19 – children, Deut 6 and 30!

18:20 – Read Deeds of Sodom (Jasher 19:3-46) Also Eleazar and Judge, (They also held 4 Feasts and seasonal orgies)

18:21 – Does he not see everything without further inspection?

Writings of Abraham 116 (pg 133)

18:25-33 – Strong praying for the weak – verses

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2 – Lot is also hospitable like Abraham

4 – Matza before fleeing to safety, like the Exodus account??

5- “know them”

Septuagint “ Where are the men that went in to thee this night? bring them out to us that we may be with them.”

19:8 –  2 Peter – verses

  • Discuss the lying pen of the scribes? (Eusibius)
  • Writings of Abraham 119-120

19:13 – Angels performed this destruction

19:14 – 2 Peter 3:1-7 – verses

19:17 – Eze 7 parallels – verses

24 – Sodom & Gomorrah ruins: Sulphur

26 – “Remember Lots wife”  – Luke 17 & 9 – verses

29 – “Remembered Abraham” (his prayer covered lot)

19:31 – They thought they were repopulating the earth

– Jasher confirms the daughters thought the whole world was destroyed  Jasher 19:57

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6 – Dream Jasher 20:12-19

20:7 – Yahuah’s love for his people – Man of war – (he protects his beloved)  – verses

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9-12 – Cast out the bondwoman

  • On the surface it seems like Sarah was too harsh, before investigation that is (Jasher 21:11-15)
  • Writings of Abraham 128
  • He more than likely took it to prayer and Yahuah answered.
  • Hearkened to his wife (helpmeet doesn’t mean Yahuah doesn’t speak through them)

14 – Abraham was tested

  1. – Arabs, “great nation” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalence_of_circumcision

Population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_world

21:26: Ishmael

  • Jasher 21:18-48
  • Writings of Abraham 129 & 130
  • Targums 21:20-21

21:26 – Jasher 22:4-7

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1-2 – This test came from (Jasher 22:40-55)

  • Writings of Abraham 133 – 135

14 – Mount Moriah significance: – link

Jasher account: LONG – 23:1-75 (much more detail regarding the binding of Isaac)

  • Writings of Abraham 143 (same)

All words matter – link

Abraham was patient in tribulation – link

  • Deeds of Abraham  (John 8 reminder)
  • Waiting many years for a son (patience). 
    • Are you praying for something and not getting an answer?
    • In a tough situation and not delivered yet?
    • Did Abraham backbite or complain?
      • Do you think Abraham prayed often? Yet he didn’t receive an answer for many years. (Are we more deserving than Abraham?)
      • Patience, wait and trust.
        • Joseph
        • Jeremiah
      • Parable of the persistent widow – Luke 18

22:18 – Gal 3

Patience, wait for Yahuah – Finish with Enoch 108

John 3 & Exo 34 – Believe in the name – verses

Torah Portion Week 5 (24-25)

Chayei Sarah – “Life of Sarah” – Gen 23:1 – 25:18

Death of Sarah, Purchase of Machpela & Eliezeer sent to get Rebekkah

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23:1-2 – The Sarah you never saw Jasher 23:1-19

  • Reminder of the servant forgiven the debt
  • Jasher 23:76-90

  • Take it patiently: Sirach 2:1-11

Writings of Abraham 148-153,  (163)

23:7 – Courtesy, even among the heathen

23:20 – These are more deeds of Abraham, completely humble.  Who is our neighbor (Good Samaritan)? – Luke 10:25-37

Doing good to all (neighbors) – Multiple verses (a new way of thinking)

Winning Souls Writings of Abraham 55 (pg 86), 80 (pg 106)

  • How can we ever think to make true converts hating the people outside of covenant
    • Contrast with how jews today think of outsiders?
      • (Reminder) We are not called to be Jewish

  • Jasher 24:8-10

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24:11 – Strong women!

24:15 – Answering prayer before even asked – Verses about prayer (Is 65, Ps 34 etc..)

24:21 – Hospitality was the sign from YHWH – John 13, Gal 5, Matt 7 (fruits)

24:27 – The excitement of prayer instantly answered!

24:43 – This passage combined with Gen 24:16 shows alma can also mean virgin, just as Bethula — 24:43 – Alma (virgin)

24:45 – Silent prayer

24:48 – We can ask him to go before us still this day

24:52 – Are we as thankful to YHWH when he delivers? – Ps 150

24:60 – Be the mother of thousands of millions (she was the mother of two nations)

  • Children and enemies at the gate verses
  • “The Gate” is a place for entering into battle, or the place for judgement, civil matters

24:67 – Some use this verse to say relations = marriage

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25-end – Jasher 26:21-End

  • Abraham brought the children of the earth to the service of YHWH