Book of Jasher, Chapter 13 — Terah and Abram Leave Ur Casdim; the Lord's Covenant with Abram; Abram Goes to Canaan
1And Terah took his son Abram, and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram, and all the souls of his household, and went with them from Ur Casdim to go to the land of Canaan; and when they came as far as the land of Haran they remained there, for it was exceedingly good land for pasture, and broad enough for those who accompanied them.
2And the people of the land of Haran saw that Abram was good and upright with God and men, and that the Lord his God was with him; and some of the people of the land of Haran came and joined Abram, and he taught them the instruction of the Lord and his ways; and these men remained with Abram in his house, and they held fast to him.
3And Abram remained in the land three years; and at the end of three years the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, I am the Lord who brought you out from Ur Casdim, and delivered you from the hands of all your enemies.
4And now, if you will listen to my voice and keep my commandments, my statutes, and my laws, then I will cause your enemies to fall before you, and I will multiply your seed like the stars of heaven, and I will send my blessing upon all the works of your hands, and you shall lack nothing.
5Arise now, take your wife and all who belong to you, and go to the land of Canaan and remain there; and I will be a God to you there, and I will bless you. And Abram rose and took his wife and all who belonged to him, and he went to the land of Canaan, as the Lord had told him; and Abram was fifty years old when he went from Haran.
6And Abram came to the land of Canaan and dwelt in the midst of the city; and there he pitched his tent among the children of Canaan, the inhabitants of the land.
7And the Lord appeared to Abram when he came to the land of Canaan, and said to him, This is the land which I have given to you and to your seed after you forever; and I will make your seed like the stars of heaven, and I will give to your seed for an inheritance all the lands that you see.
8And Abram built an altar in the place where God had spoken to him, and there Abram called upon the name of the Lord.
9At that time, at the end of three years of Abram's dwelling in the land of Canaan, in that year Noah died — which was the fifty-eighth year of the life of Abram; and all the days that Noah lived were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.
10And Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan — he, his wife, and all who belonged to him, and all who accompanied him, together with those who joined him from the people of the land; but Nahor, Abram's brother, and Terah his father, and Lot the son of Haran, and all who belonged to them, dwelt in Haran.
11In the fifth year of Abram's dwelling in the land of Canaan, the people of Sodom and Gomorrah and all the cities of the plain revolted from the power of Chedorlaomer, king of Elam; for all the kings of the cities of the plain had served Chedorlaomer twelve years, and given him a yearly tribute; but in those days, in the thirteenth year, they rebelled against him.
12And in the tenth year of Abram's dwelling in the land of Canaan, there was war between Nimrod king of Shinar and Chedorlaomer king of Elam; and Nimrod came to fight with Chedorlaomer and to subdue him.
13For Chedorlaomer was at that time one of the princes of the hosts of Nimrod; and when all the people at the tower were dispersed, and those who remained were scattered upon the face of the earth, Chedorlaomer went to the land of Elam and reigned over it, and rebelled against his lord.
14And in those days, when Nimrod saw that the cities of the plain had rebelled, he came with pride and anger to make war on Chedorlaomer; and Nimrod assembled all his princes and subjects, about seven hundred thousand men, and went against Chedorlaomer; and Chedorlaomer went out to meet him with five thousand men, and they prepared for battle in the valley of Babel, which lies between Elam and Shinar.
15And all those kings fought there; and Nimrod and his people were struck down before the people of Chedorlaomer, and there fell of Nimrod's men about six hundred thousand, and Mardon the king's son fell among them.
16And Nimrod fled, and returned in shame and disgrace to his land; and he was in subjection to Chedorlaomer for a long time. And Chedorlaomer returned to his land, and sent princes of his host to the kings who dwelt around him — to Arioch king of Elasar, and to Tidal king of Goyim — and made a covenant with them, and they were all obedient to his commands.
17And it was in the fifteenth year of Abram's dwelling in the land of Canaan, which is the seventieth year of the life of Abram, that the Lord appeared to Abram in that year, and he said to him, I am the Lord who brought you out from Ur Casdim, to give you this land for an inheritance.
18Now therefore walk before me and be perfect, and keep my commands; for to you and to your seed I will give this land for an inheritance, from the river Mitzraim to the great river Euphrates.
19And you shall come to your fathers in peace and at a good old age; and the fourth generation shall return here to this land, and shall inherit it forever. And Abram built an altar, and called upon the name of the Lord who had appeared to him, and he offered up sacrifices upon the altar to the Lord.
20At that time Abram returned and went to Haran, to see his father and mother and his father's household; and Abram and his wife and all who belonged to him returned to Haran, and Abram dwelt in Haran five years.
21And many of the people of Haran — about seventy-two men — followed Abram, and Abram taught them the instruction of the Lord and his ways, and he taught them to know the Lord.
22In those days the Lord appeared to Abram in Haran, and he said to him, Behold, I spoke to you twenty years ago, saying,
23Go out from your land, from your birthplace, and from your father's house, to the land I have shown you, to give it to you and to your children; for there, in that land, I will bless you, and make you a great nation, and make your name great, and in you shall the families of the earth be blessed.
24Now therefore arise, go out from this place — you, your wife, and all who belong to you, and everyone born in your house, and all the souls you have made in Haran; bring them out with you from here, and arise to return to the land of Canaan.
25And Abram arose and took his wife Sarai and all who belonged to him, and all who had been born to him in his house, and the souls they had made in Haran; and they went out to go to the land of Canaan.
26And Abram went and returned to the land of Canaan, according to the word of the Lord; and Lot, the son of his brother Haran, went with him; and Abram was seventy-five years old when he went out from Haran to return to the land of Canaan.
27And he came to the land of Canaan, according to the word of the Lord to Abram; and he pitched his tent, and he dwelt in the plain of Mamre; and with him was Lot his brother's son, and all who belonged to him.
28And the Lord again appeared to Abram and said, To your seed I will give this land; and there he built an altar to the Lord who had appeared to him — which stands to this day in the plains of Mamre.