According to Genesis 12:10-20, Abraham went to live with the Egyptians because of a famine in the land, and he told his wife Sarai (Sarah) to tell the Egyptians that she is his sister so that his life would be spared. Pharaoh ended up taking Abraham’s wife, and the Lord inflicted...
And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.Berean Standard BibleAbraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech king of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.King James BibleAnd Abraham said of Sarah his ...
God tells Abraham to depart his homeland for a land that he would show him, ensuring to "make of him a great nation, bless him, make his name great, bless those who blessed him, and curse "him" that curses him." Obeying God's call, Abraham brought his wife Sarah, his nephew Lot,...
Abraham now journeyed to Gerar, between Kadesh and Shur, and for the second time passed Sarah off as his sister. Abimelech, king of Gerar, took her into his house; but, on being rebuked by God, released her precisely as Pharaoh had done (ib. xx.).Traditional House of Abraham.(From...
Tricked by his father-in-law into marrying his true love's sister, Jacob waited 14 years before he could be with Rachel. Who became Abraham's second wife? Abraham again took a wife and her name was Keturah. Who is the oldest woman in the Bible? His wife Sarah is the only woman in...
“It is not strange that the chronology of P displays everywhere the most absurd oddities when injected into the old legends; as a result, Sarah is still at sixty-five a beautiful woman, whom the Egyptians seek to capture, and Ishmael is carried on his mother’s shoulders after he is a...
We, too, have problems in understanding what is going on. (1) How can a 65-year-old woman be considered so beautiful? (2) How can a righteous man like Abraham lower himself to deception in claiming that Sarah is his sister? and (3) Why does a similar wife-sister account occur three...
11 The matter was very distressing to Abraham on account of his son. 12 But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed because of the boy and because of your slave woman; whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for it is through Isaac that offspring sha...
14 Any uncircumcised male, who has not been circumcised in the flesh, will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.” 15 God also said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah. 16 I will bless her and will...
240 Words 1 Page Open Document The assigned reading is the story of Abraham and his son Isaac, and one of the main themes that is repetitively outlined is ‘faith’, more specifically Abraham’s faith within God. In the Exordium, the narrator provides analogies of different scenarios in which...