Study Desk

The water continued to cover the earth for 150 days.

As long as the earth continues, there will always be a time for planting and a time for harvest. There will always be cold and hot, summer and winter, day and night on earth."

In the past, I gave you the green plants to eat. Now every animal will also be food for you. I give you everything on earth—it is yours.

Also, I will demand your blood for your lives. That is, I will demand the life of any person or animal that takes a human life.

Then he moved on toward the Negev, stopping for a time at several places on the way.

These kings had served Kedorlaomer for twelve years. But in the 13th year, they all rebelled against him.

Then the Lord said to Abram, "You should know this: Your descendants will live in a country that is not their own. They will be strangers there. The people there will make them slaves and be cruel to them for 400 years.

Then Sarai said to Abram, "My slave girl now hates me, and I blame you for this. I gave her to you, and she became pregnant. Then she began to feel that she is better than I am. I want the Lord to judge which of us is right."

The Lord talked to Hagar. She began to use a new name for God. She said to him, "You are ‘God Who Sees Me.'" She said this because she thought, "I see that even in this place God sees me and cares for me!"

And I will prepare an agreement between me and you. This agreement will also be for all your descendants. It will continue forever. I will be your God and the God of all your descendants.

I will get some food for you, and you can eat as much as you want. Then you can continue your journey." The three men said, "Do as you wish."

Abraham hurried to the tent. He said to Sarah, "Quickly, prepare enough flour for three loaves of bread."

Then Abraham ran to his cattle. He took his best young calf and gave it to the servant there. He told the servant to quickly kill the calf and prepare it for food.

Abraham and Sarah were very old. Sarah was past the right age for women to have children.

But is anything too hard for the Lord ? I will come again in the spring, just as I said I would, and your wife Sarah will have a son."

I will go and see if they are as bad as I have heard. Then I will know for sure."

What if there are fifty good people in that city? Will you still destroy it? Surely you will save the city for the fifty good people living there.

But Lot continued to ask them to come to his house, so they agreed and went with him. Lot gave them something to drink. He baked some bread for them, and they ate it.

So give Abraham his wife again. He is a prophet. He will pray for you, and you will live. But if you don't give Sarah back to him, I promise that you will die. And all your family will die with you."

God led me away from my father's house. He led me to wander to many different places. When that happened, I told Sarah, ‘Do something for me. Wherever we go, tell people you are my sister.'"