Genesis 16

Genesis 16

Impatient with God's timing, Abram and his wife Sarai decide to take matters into their own hands to secure an heir. Sarai gives her Egyptian servant, Hagar, to Abram. When Hagar conceives, she begins to despise Sarai, who then treats her harshly, forcing Hagar to flee to the wilderness. An angel of the Lord appears to Hagar, promising that her son, Ishmael, will be a wild man and the father of a multitude. Hagar returns and gives birth to Ishmael when Abram is eighty-six years old.

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Genesis 17

God changes Abram's name to Abraham and establishes circumcision as the permanent sign of His everlasting covenant with him and his descendants.

Genesis 18

God appears to Abraham as three men and promises that Sarah will have a son. Abraham then bravely intercedes for the wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.

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