The early life of Abram

Just to start this blog out about Abram, (soon to be Abraham) I want to tell you that there is A LOT to say about him and his life, and I know that for most people, a lot of reading is BORING....

So I am going to split this topic in different categories, The first category will be about Abraham's "Earlier Life."

So let's get started:

Now the Lord had said to Abram:

“Get out of your country,
From your family
And from your father’s house,
To a land that I will show you.
 I will make you a great nation;
I will bless you
And make your name great;
And you shall be a blessing.
 I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” (Genesis 12: 1-3) Sounds pretty good, right? So Abram did as he was told and Lot went with him. Guess how old Abram was when he departed from Haran?? He was...

WHOAH!

Abram took his wife, Sarai and Lot, who was his brother's son (I know, all of this family tree business can get confusing :p) and ALL of their possessions they had gathered. They were heading to Caanan.

 Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.  And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he 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.   So Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South. ^{GENESIS 12: 7-9}

Now there was a famine in the Land of Egypt and it came to pass that he was soon entering Egypt. Abram told his wife that she is beautiful and that they will have him killed if they knew she was his wife, so he asked him to act like his sister. And as Abram said...Sarai was commended to the pharaoh and taken into his home:

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 BUT don't worry, Abram was treated good :)

 But the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.  And Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?   Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’? I might have taken her as my wife. Now therefore, here is your wife; take her and go your way.”   So Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they sent him away, with his wife and all that he had Genesis 12: 17-20

I am kind of surprised that Pharaoh let Abram go that easy...aren't you?

TO BE CONTINUED...