Genesis Trivia Question:
12:1-9
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
God said to Abraham,
Leave your country for a land that I'll show you.
I'll bless you, make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
I will bless those that bless you, and curse those that curse you. [1]
4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
6 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.
Abraham, Sarah, and Lot gathered all their possessions (and souls) and traveled from Haran to Canaan.
7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.
8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.
When they arrived in the land of Canaan, God appeared to Abraham [3], and said:
I will give all this land to your descendants.
Abraham built an altar for God at the place he appeared to him.
9 And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.
11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:
As they approached Egypt, Abraham said to Sarah,
You are a beautiful woman. [5]
12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.
Therefore the Egyptians will say, "This is his wife" and they'll kill me, but keep you alive.
13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.
So tell them you are my sister [6], so things will go well for me.
14 And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.
15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
And sure enough, when they arrived in Egypt, Pharaoh couldn't resist the "very fair", 65-year-old Sarah, and he takes her into his harem.
16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.
17 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.
God sent "great plagues" on the Pharaoh and his household because the Pharaoh believed Abraham's lie.
18 And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
What have you done to me? Why didn't you tell me Sarah was your wife?
19 Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.
Why did you say, "She's my sister" so I would take her as my wife?
Now Go. Take your wife and leave.
20 And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.
God will bless you if you bless Abraham and curse you if you curse Abraham. Fuck Abraham.
According to David Barton, this verse requires the US to support Israel.
How old was Abraham when he left Haran?
How old was Terah when he died?
Sarah was sixty five years old at the time.
If Abraham is telling the truth here, then Abraham's lie was half-true, since Sarah was his half-sister.
But we only have Abraham to go on here. The Bible doesn't say who Sarah's parents were.
If Sarah is Abraham's half-sister, their marriage is condemned by the Bible; yet God makes an exception for Abraham and Sarah. (See Gen 17:15-16 where God blesses their marriage and Gen 20:2-18 where Abraham repeats the same "she's my sister" lie.)
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