Abraham / Sarah Notes

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Gen 12

Abraham's father is named tarah.

Tarah lives in Ur

Went to the town of haran

Tarah dies in haran

Abram becomes head of family

Abrahm and sarai can’t have kids

Abrahm is 75 sarai 65

If a women cant have kids then she is barren

Tarah had four kids

Sarai and Abram were related

God appears to Abram.

God says “I want you to follow me to a land that i will show you”

God wants him to abandon everything (except wife.. Etc.. ppl working for him”

“If you do, some things are gonna happen. From you will come a Great natation, great name, all nations blessed”

Canaan is the promised land

Lot is like an adopted son because abrams brother died.

They are in canaan

Because of a famine, abram takes his family to egypt, tells sarai to tell egyptians she is his sister Pharaoh takes her for his wife

A plague comes

Everyone goes back to canaan and the promise still stands

Gen 13

Abrams and Lots flocks and herds grow so large, they have to separate and not dewell together. Lot chose to go live on Jordan Plain.

There are two towns by the Deal sea.

The two names are Sodom and Gomorrah

They have bad reputations

Now Lot cannot be the heir to Abram and Sarai.

Abram and sarai still dont have children

God visits them

Abram tells God “See, you have given me no offspring, will my servant eliezer inherent all this.”

God says no, you will have a child

God says sacrifice animals, kill them drain the blood out and cut them in half. 4 animals in falf.

“If i fail to meet this part of the covenant, do to me what you did to these animals”

God and abram made a blood covenant.

Light pass through the animals.

“Unconditional covenant”

Gen15

Ten years pass, following custom, gave her servant Hagar to abram to father a child, and they would become the parents of the child. Abram was 86 when ishmael was born, told ishmael was not the promised son.

Gen 17- Abram’s and Sarai’s heir

Twenty four years later, Abram is 99 God appears again, renews covenant. Abram’s name is changed to Abraham. He and all his soon to be male descendants are required to be circumcised. Sarai is now to be named Sarah.

Conditional covenant

Everyone has to be circumcised

Gen-18

Abrahma is visited by three men (one of whom is the lord) Provides hospitality. Abraham is told he will have a son in a year. Sarah laughs at this suggestion. The reason God has come is to investigate Sodom and Gomorrah.

They have a son named issac- it means laughter

God wants to destroy the towns.

Abrhahms says if there's 10 good people spare the city.

God visits the town

No one is the town offers hospitality.

Lot recognizes them and offers hospitality.

The rest of the village of Sodom comes to the house and is angry and tells him to throw them out to rape them.

Lot offers to send out his daughters

The village said no.

The angles send a light to blind the men. The angels tell Lot he needs to leave now.

Fire and stuff hits sodom and gomorrah and they all died except Lot and his family

Lots group now thinks they are the only people in the world

The girls get Lot drunk and sleep w him to have kids

Now they both are pregnant.

They name the kids Moab (moabites) and bemmi (bemmites)

Abraham and Sarah have a child names Isaac and Hagar and Ishmael are banished

Ishmael become his own tribe (ishmaelites)

God wants Abraham to sacrifice his kid as a test

They go on a three day journey to this mountain

They go up the mountain and issac has wood on his back

They make an alter

ABraham raise up the knife

God says stop and throughout the whole family line will not sacrifice the child

A ram is offered instead

Sarah died at 127. Abraham is allowed to buy a cave for her burial. This is the first of the promised land owned by abraham.

He gets a cave and this is when the promised land starts