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God Calls Abraham

  ¹The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.

⁴ So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran.

⁵ He took his wife Sarai,his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.

⁶ Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Morehat Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.

⁷ The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

⁸ From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent,with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.

⁹ Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.

Genesis 16

 ¹ Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar;

 ²   so she said to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.”

Abram agreed to what Sarai said.

 ³   So after Abram had been living in Canaanten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife.

 ⁴   He slept with Hagar, and she conceived. When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress

 ⁵  Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my slave in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the Lord judge between you and me.”

  ⁶   “Your slave is in your hands,” Abram said. “Do with her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her.

  ⁷   The angel of the Lord found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.

  ⁸   And he said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I’m running away from my mistress Sarai,” she answered.

  ⁹   Then the angel of the Lord told her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her.” 

¹⁰  The angel added, “I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.”

¹¹  The angel of the Lord also said to her:

¹³   She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen the One who sees me.” 

¹⁴  That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi; it is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.

¹⁵   So Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne. 

¹⁶   Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.

Genesis 17: 1-8, 15-16

  ¹ When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty; walk before me faithfully and be blameless.

 ² Then I will make my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers.”

  ³ Abram fell facedown, and God said to him,

 ⁴ “As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations. 

  ⁵ No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.

  ⁶ I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you.

 ⁷ I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

 ⁸ The whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God.”

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 surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her.”

November 2015
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