Go to a new land
God tells Abram,
“Go forth from your land, kinsmen, and father’s house to a land that I will show you, I will make of you a great nation and I will bless you. I will make your name great and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you and I will curse those who curse you. All of the clans of the earth will be blessed through you.”
Abram went forth taking with him his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot. In Canaan, Abram spread his tent and built an altar and called for God.
There was a famine in the land and so Abram went to Egypt. Abram feared that the Egyptians would kill him to take Sarai because of her beauty so he said to her “say, then, that you are my sister so that they will let me live.” When they …show more content…
North, south, east, and west, all the land you see, I give to you and your children forever.” Abram came to dwell in Hebron and he built an altar to God.
Number of Stars
Sometime later, the word of God came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram, For I am a shield to you. Your reward shall be great.”
Abram said, “God what can you give me? I am childless, who will be my heir?” God told Abram “Your own child will be your heir. Look at the sky and count the stars, so shall your children be.” Abram trusted in God’s word. Then God said to him, “I brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land.” Abram said, “My God, when will it be mine?’ God replied, ‘Bring me a heifer, a she-goat, a ram, a turtledove, and a pigeon.” Abram brought them. God said, “You must know that your children will be strangers in a land not theirs and will be put into slavery and afflicted for four hundred years. As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace. You shall be buried in the ripeness of age. And in the fourth generation, your children will return here. Then God made a covenant to Abram saying, “I have given this land to your children, from the river of Egypt to the river of …show more content…
Walk in my ways and be without blame.” Abram fell and God then said:
“No longer shall your name be Abram. You shall now be called Abraham: father of many nations. I will make you fruitful. And make a multitude of nations of you. And kings shall come forth from you.”
“No longer shall your name be Abram. You shall now be called Abraham: father of many nations. Ainu will make you fruitful. And make a multitude of nations of you. And kings shall come forth from you.”
This is my covenant that you are to keep between me and you. God also told Abraham that he will now call his wife Sarah: princess. “I will bless her and I will give you a son from her. You shall call him Isaac: he laughs.” On that same day, Abraham was circumcised.
Laughter Abraham too Sarah and all of the people in his house and sojourned in the land of Abimelech, the king. God had done as he told Sarah and bore Abraham a son at his very old age of one hundred. As God had commanded him to do, Abraham called him Isaac and circumcised him when he was eight days old. Sarah called for Abraham to drive out Hagar and her son, this troubled Abraham but God said to him “Do not let it seem evil, this matter of the salve and the boy. Do as Sarah asks you. It is through her son, Isaac, that your children will be admired. But the some of the slave
God tells Abram,
“Go forth from your land, kinsmen, and father’s house to a land that I will show you, I will make of you a great nation and I will bless you. I will make your name great and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you and I will curse those who curse you. All of the clans of the earth will be blessed through you.”
Abram went forth taking with him his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot. In Canaan, Abram spread his tent and built an altar and called for God.
There was a famine in the land and so Abram went to Egypt. Abram feared that the Egyptians would kill him to take Sarai because of her beauty so he said to her “say, then, that you are my sister so that they will let me live.” When they …show more content…
North, south, east, and west, all the land you see, I give to you and your children forever.” Abram came to dwell in Hebron and he built an altar to God.
Number of Stars
Sometime later, the word of God came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram, For I am a shield to you. Your reward shall be great.”
Abram said, “God what can you give me? I am childless, who will be my heir?” God told Abram “Your own child will be your heir. Look at the sky and count the stars, so shall your children be.” Abram trusted in God’s word. Then God said to him, “I brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land.” Abram said, “My God, when will it be mine?’ God replied, ‘Bring me a heifer, a she-goat, a ram, a turtledove, and a pigeon.” Abram brought them. God said, “You must know that your children will be strangers in a land not theirs and will be put into slavery and afflicted for four hundred years. As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace. You shall be buried in the ripeness of age. And in the fourth generation, your children will return here. Then God made a covenant to Abram saying, “I have given this land to your children, from the river of Egypt to the river of …show more content…
Walk in my ways and be without blame.” Abram fell and God then said:
“No longer shall your name be Abram. You shall now be called Abraham: father of many nations. I will make you fruitful. And make a multitude of nations of you. And kings shall come forth from you.”
“No longer shall your name be Abram. You shall now be called Abraham: father of many nations. Ainu will make you fruitful. And make a multitude of nations of you. And kings shall come forth from you.”
This is my covenant that you are to keep between me and you. God also told Abraham that he will now call his wife Sarah: princess. “I will bless her and I will give you a son from her. You shall call him Isaac: he laughs.” On that same day, Abraham was circumcised.
Laughter Abraham too Sarah and all of the people in his house and sojourned in the land of Abimelech, the king. God had done as he told Sarah and bore Abraham a son at his very old age of one hundred. As God had commanded him to do, Abraham called him Isaac and circumcised him when he was eight days old. Sarah called for Abraham to drive out Hagar and her son, this troubled Abraham but God said to him “Do not let it seem evil, this matter of the salve and the boy. Do as Sarah asks you. It is through her son, Isaac, that your children will be admired. But the some of the slave