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This is Book of Mormon Central, so come follow me insights. Today, Genesis chapter's 18 through 23.

And what we have here, entering into this foreign country, there's a lot that gets recorded in the Bible,

but there's a lot that's left on set.

Have you ever told a story and your listeners are in on kind of the inside track of the

joke or the context?

And so there's a lot of details that you don't even need to explain because your audience

already knows all sorts of things about maybe the geography or certain customs or culture, or even

funny phrases or symbolic phrases.

And that's what we have going on in the Bible is that there's a lot that's left on said.

And so culturally, we read some of these things, we're like, wow, that's not quite how

I live my life.

And so again, we do want to find where do we see gospel principles and where can we also

understand cultural things that were different back then that, well, they could distract

us from the gospel message, but hopefully if we understand the culture, you can say, oh, I

understand why they did it that way.

So chapter 18, we jump in with the story of Abraham and his wife, Sarah, and keep in mind,

let's set the stage here that here's the Mediterranean Sea.

We're looking now at a horizontal view of the land, and then you get the Holy Land that is shaped kind of

like this. So this would be sea level here at the coastline, and then you come up, Jerusalem

is sitting right here just on the westward side of the Mount of

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