Genesis

>Tower of Babel:  People wanted to glory themselves by building a tower.  God confused their speech to create different languages, and scattered the people.

ch. 12

>Abram and Lot go to Egypt.

>Abram tells Pharaoh that Sarai is his sister, Pharaoh took her and was struck with plagues.

Ch. 13

>Abram and Lot part ways to avoid conflict between their respective groups.

Ch. 14

>Abram rescues Lot from conflict between kings.

Ch. 15

>God’s covenant to give Abram land.

Ch. 16

>Sarai gives her servant Hagar to Abram.

>Hagar speaks with the Lord.

>Ishmael is born of Hagar.

Ch. 17

>Covenant of circumcision.

>Promise of a son.

>Named Abraham and Sarah.

Ch. 18

>Visitors predict Sarah having a child.

>Abraham asks God to spare Sodom if He should find 10 innocent people.

Ch. 19

>God destroys Sodom and Gommorah, but spares Lot and his family.

>His daughters get pregnant by him, tricking him with wine, because they don’t think there are any men to marry them.  Their sons: Moab and Ammon.

Ch. 20

>Abimelech, king of Gerar, was warned not to take Sarah because she was Abraham’s wife.  God kept him from sinning.

Ch. 21

>Sarah bore a son, Isaac.

>Sarah asked Abraham to send Hagar and Ishmael away.

>Hagar and Ishmael ran out of water, God heard Ishmael’s cries, and showed Hagar a well.

>Ishmael grew up in the wilderness, and got and Egyptian wife.

>Abraham and Abimelech made a pact to be loyal, and that a well that was dug by Abraham but siezed by Abimelech would belong to Abraham.

Ch. 22

>God tested Abraham by asking him to sacrafice his son, but stopped him at the last minute.

>God promised Abraham many descendents, because he did not withhold his son from God.

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~ by Dawn on April 5, 2010.

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