- Abram’s wife Sarai was barren; she had no child!
- Terah took Abram his son and Lot his grandson, the son of Haran, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and they went with him out of Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. In time they came to Haran and began dwelling there. The days of Terah were 205 years. Then Terah died in Haran.
- God told Abram to go to Canaan!
- So Abram was 75 when he left haran and he left with his whole family!
- They went to Sheshem and God told him that he would give his offspring the land of Canaan!
- Because of the famine, Abram went to Egypt!
- Abram told his wife to say to the Egyptians that she was his sister so he would stay alive!
- Sarai was brought to Pharaoh’s house!
- But God struck Pharaoh because of Sarai!
- So Pharaoh gave back Sarai to Abram and he left!
- When Abraham was 99, God appeared to him and told him he would become a great nation!
- And God changed his name from Abram to Abraham!
- And he told him again that they would get the land of Canaan!
- And he established a covenant with him: every male had to get circumcised!
- The one not being circumcised had to die!
- And he changed the name of Abraham’s wife from Sarai to Sarah!
- And she was to have a child!
- But Abraham began to laugh and to say in his heart: “Will a man 100 years old have a child born to him, and will Sarah, a woman 90 years old, give birth?”
- Thus Abraham and all the men belonging to him were circumcised!
- Abraham saw 3 men and he met them and invited them to eat something!
- So he told his wife to prepare bread!
- And he asked one of his attendant for preparing a young bull!
- Finally, one of them told him that next year Sarah was to have a son!
- And Sarah began to laugh to herself because she was too old!
- God said to Abraham he was going to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah!
- Then Abraham had a discussion with God!
- And God told him he was not going to destroy the two cities if he was to find 50 or 45 or 40 or 30 or 20 or 10 righteous men he would not destroy the two cities!
- Think about the men who could have such a discussion with God!
- Not many indeed!
- God really considered Abraham as a faithful servant!
- Then Pharaoh has a second dream with seven full ears of grain and seven thin ones!
- And the seven thin ones swallow up the seven full ones!
- And Pharaoh becomes agitated and wants the interpretation of his dreams!
- But no one can interpret them!
- And his officer finally remembers Joseph and tells Pharaoh about him!
- So Pharaoh sends for Joseph who tells the interpretation of the dreams!
- And Joseph tells Pharaoh about seven years of abundance and seven years of famine!
- So Joseph tells Pharaoh to put a man in charge over the land of Egypt to collect all the food during the abundance and store it and safeguard it and save the people!
- So Pharaoh puts Joseph in charge!
- He will be second only after Pharaoh!
- Joseph was 30 years old!
- And Joseph had two sons Manasseh and Ephraim!
- And people would come from everywhere to buy food from Joseph!
- Because of the famine, Jacob must send his sons to Egypt again to buy some food!
- But Judah tells his father they must go with Benjamin!
- Otherwise they will get into trouble!
- Judah offers his life as a guarantee for his safety!
- Jacob tells them to take double the money with them and also the money that was returned to them!
- When Joseph sees Benjamin, he invites all his brothers to a meal with him!
- But when Joseph’s brothers are told to go to Joseph’s house, they think it is because of the money that was returned in their bags and they are afraid of dying!
- But they are told not to be afraid!
- And they also told about the meal!
- Then Joseph asks them more questions!
- When Joseph sees Benjamin again, he wants to cry so he goes to another room!
