In the Masoretic Text of the Tanakh ( Hebrew Bible), Parashah Lech-Lecha has three "open portion" ( פתוחה, petuchah) divisions (roughly equivalent to paragraphs, often abbreviated with the Hebrew letter פ ( peh)). In traditional Sabbath Torah reading, the parashah is divided into seven readings, or עליות, aliyot. Jews read it on the third Sabbath after Simchat Torah, in October or November. The parashah is made up of 6,336 Hebrew letters, 1,686 Hebrew words, 126 verses, and 208 lines in a Torah Scroll ( Sefer Torah). The parashah tells the stories of God's calling of Abram (who would become Abraham), Abram's passing off his wife Sarai as his sister, Abram's dividing the land with his nephew Lot, the war between the four kings and the five, the covenant between the pieces, Sarai's tensions with her maid Hagar and Hagar's son Ishmael, and the covenant of circumcision ( brit milah). Lech-Lecha, Lekh-Lekha, or Lech-L'cha ( לֶךְ-לְךָ leḵ-ləḵā- Hebrew for "go!" or "leave!", literally "go for you"-the fifth and sixth words in the parashah) is the third weekly Torah portion ( פָּרָשָׁה, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. The Meeting between Abraham and Melchizedek (painting circa 1625 by Peter Paul Rubens)
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