Concepts

Avram’s tests

Avram and Lot part company

War between the Five Kings and the Four Kings

Covenant of the Parts

Hagar given to Avram

Name changes for Avram and Sari

Circumcision of Avrohom and his household

People

Avram
Sarai
Lot
Hagar
Yishmael

Places

Charan
Egypt
Plains of Mamre

Year from Creation Timeline

Avram leaves Charan for Eretz Yisrael ... Famine ... Avram goes down to Egypt ... splits up with Lot ... the battle with the kings ... the king of S'dom
2033 Hagar and Sarah
2034 Hagar gives birth to Yishmael

Avram circumcises himself, Yishmael, at 13, and all the members of his household on the thirteenth of Nisan ... his name is changed from Avram to Avraham, and Sarai's to Sarah.

Sedra-Stats

• 3rd of the 54 sedras; 3rd of 12 in Sefer Bereshis
• Written on 208 lines in a Sefer Torah; 23th of 54
• 7 parshios: 3 open, 4 closed

Comparison to the other sedras:

• 126 pesukim – 13th of 54 (7th of 12 in Bereshis)
• 1686 words – 18th of 54 (7th of 12 in Bereshis)
• 6336 letters – 19th of 54 (7th of 12 in Bereshis)

Mitzvos:

One Positive Mitzvos in the Parsha (Number 2 of 613 Mitzvos in the Torah)

1. The mitzvah of circumcision