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Story Of Abraham Research Paper

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Jiham R. Luis C. Fernanda L. Sofia M.
Mr. Carlos Sosa
November 18, 2015

The Story of Abraham

Abraham lived with his family ( Lot, Sarah, Tara). Abraham was the first person God talked to. God promised Abraham a land for him and his offspring. Abraham got to the promised land and settled there, but Lot and Abraham separated from each other quickly. Abraham saved Lot when he was kidnapped. Abraham had a baby with Sarah's slave, Hagar. 3 men came and said Abraham was going to have a baby with her 98 year old wife. The three men also told Abraham that Sodom and Gomorrah was going to be judged by God. Sarah and Abraham had a baby. Abraham sent away his first born, Ishmael and the baby's mother, Hagar. God told Abraham he had to sacrifice Isaac. …show more content…

When Abraham was on his way to the land, he realized the land, Canaan was not his, pagans owned it. Abraham noticed that the land was suffering from a drought, and so, there was no food. Abraham was forced to get out of the land, or his family and himself would die from hunger. God told Abraham again to go to the land he would show him. While on his way, Abraham got to a land full of people, the land was Egypt. Abraham told Sarah to tell everyone that she was her sister and not her wife, because Abraham was scared that since Sarah was so pretty, they would kill him in order to be with her. Abraham was right, Sarah was very pretty, so pretty that the pharaoh wanted marry her. The pharaoh started giving Abraham a lot of gifts like camels, slaves, etc. a way of being thankful that he let her "sister" marry him. Not much after that, God filled Egypt with deadly plagues, that was when the pharaoh of Egypt noticed that God sent him the plagues because he was going to marry Abraham's wife. The pharaoh quickly told Abraham to leave.
After Abraham left Egypt, he was very wealthy thanks to all the gifts the pharaoh has gifted him. Abraham and his family went back to Canaan, where they decided to stay. Abraham told Lot they could not be together because their slaves were fighting for getting the better portion of the land for the animals and their belongings were too many. Lot decided to move very near Sodom and

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