RELG 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mamre, Gerar, Pharaoh
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Abram leaves country to head for canaan, bethal and egypt. Goes to egypt and lies about his wife. Fight between the herds of abram and lot and so they go their separate ways. Lot lived in sodom, and abram to mamre at hebron. War between 4 kings and 5 kings. Abram hears that lot is in danger and goes to save him. Lord tells abram that there is a covenant between the two of them. He blesses him and tells him he will prosper and that there will be many descendants after him. Sarai cant have children so she has her slave hagar have the baby for her. Then hagar stops listening to sarai and sarai mistreated her so she fled. Angel of the lord tells her to go back. Sarai is going to have a child and the angels of the lord punish the people of. Abraham asks god not to kill the innocent people.