Study Desk

So the Lord said, "I will destroy all human beings that I made on the earth. And I will destroy every animal and everything that crawls on the earth and the birds of the air, because I am sorry I have made them."

"Now I am making my agreement with you and your people who will live after you,

I am putting my rainbow in the clouds as the sign of the agreement between me and the earth.

Get up! Walk through all this land because I am now giving it to you."

God said to Abram, "I am the Lord who led you out of Ur of Babylonia so that I could give you this land to own."

After your great-great-grandchildren are born, your people will come to this land again. It will take that long, because I am not yet going to punish the Amorites for their evil behavior."

The angel said, "Hagar, Sarai's slave girl, where have you come from? Where are you going?" Hagar answered, "I am running away from my mistress Sarai."

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, "I am God Almighty. Obey me and do what is right.

"I am making my agreement with you: I will make you the father of many nations.

I am changing your name from Abram to Abraham because I am making you a father of many nations.

Then the Lord said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh? Why did she say, ‘I am too old to have a baby'?

The Lord said, "Should I tell Abraham what I am going to do now?

Then Abraham said, "Though I am only dust and ashes, I have been brave to speak to the Lord.

Abraham himself told me, ‘This woman is my sister,' and she also said, ‘He is my brother.' I am innocent. I did not know I was doing anything wrong."

When God told me to leave my father's house and wander in many different places, I told Sarah, ‘You must do a special favor for me. Everywhere we go tell people I am your brother.'"

After these things God tested Abraham's faith. God said to him, "Abraham!" And he answered, "Here I am."

"I am only a stranger and a foreigner here. Sell me some of your land so that I can bury my dead wife."

Ask him to sell me the cave of Machpelah at the edge of his field. I will pay him the full price. You can be the witnesses that I am buying it as a burial place."

Here I am, standing by the spring, and the girls from the city are coming out to get water.

He said, "I am Abraham's servant.