Parashat Lech-Lecha 5804 / פָּרָשַׁת לֶךְ־לְךָ
/ 11 Cheshvan 5804
Parashat Lech-Lecha is the 3rd weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading.
Torah Portion: Genesis 12:1-17:27
Lech Lecha (“Go Forth”) recounts Abraham’s (here known as Abram) first encounter with God, his journey to Canaan, the birth of his son Ishmael, the covenant between him, his descendants, and God, and God’s commandment to circumcise the males of his household. [1]
Full Kriyah
- 1: 12:1-13 · 13 p’sukim
- 2: 12:14-13:4 · 11 p’sukim
- 3: 13:5-18 · 14 p’sukim
- 4: 14:1-20 · 20 p’sukim
- 5: 14:21-15:6 · 10 p’sukim
- 6: 15:7-17:6 · 37 p’sukim
- 7: 17:7-27 · 21 p’sukim
- maf: 17:24-27 · 4 p’sukim
Haftarah: Isaiah 40:27-41:16 · 21 p’sukim
Triennial year 1
- 1: 12:1-3 · 3 p’sukim
- 2: 12:4-9 · 6 p’sukim
- 3: 12:10-13 · 4 p’sukim
- 4: 12:14-20 · 7 p’sukim
- 5: 13:1-4 · 4 p’sukim
- 6: 13:5-11 · 7 p’sukim
- 7: 13:12-18 · 7 p’sukim
- maf: 13:16-18 · 3 p’sukim
Haftarah: Isaiah 40:27-41:16 · 21 p’sukim
Alternate Haftarah: Judges 6:24-32 · 9 p’sukim
Commentary and Divrei Torah
Lech-Lecha: The JPS B’nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary by Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin (paid link)
List of Dates
Parashat Lech-Lecha is read in the Diaspora on:References
- Parashat Lech-Lecha from Sefaria.org
- Sefaria, Inc.
- Lech-Lecha (Genesis 12:1-17:27) and Haftarah (Isaiah 40:27-41:16): The JPS B’nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary (JPS Study Bible) (paid link)
- Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin, Jewish Publication Society, 2017
- The Chumash: The Stone Edition (Artscroll Series) (paid link)
- Nosson Scherman, Mesorah Publications, 1993
- A Complete Triennial System for Reading the Torah
- Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly, 1988
- Haftarot for a Triennial Cycle Torah Reading
- Avram Israel Reisner, 2014
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