Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

If you never got around to listening to our six prep episodes before you started this trip through

TBR, let me encourage you to do that today. You can listen to all six episodes

in about an hour, and they will really help make sure you do this well and that you don't lose

momentum. Okay, we're back to Genesis now. When we were last here, before we dropped in on Job,

a man named Abram had just been born through the bloodline of Adam and Noah via Noah's son, Shem.

According to the timeline Genesis marks out, Abraham was born almost 2,000 years after Adam, but only about 300 years after the flood.

And just like Adam and Noah before him, God continues his unique relationship with this family through Abram.

In 12-3, God tells Abram that he's going to bless him so that he may be a blessing.

That blessing doesn't terminate on Abram.

It's ultimately about way more than him.

It's about how the Messiah will be born through his bloodline someday through this family,

which is a blessing to all the

families of the earth. But this is way over Abrams' head at this point. Initially, God just

promises to bless him with land and possessions. But there's one problem. The land God promises

him is currently inhabited by the Canaanites. We talked about them on day three. They're the group of

people who are generally regarded as enemies of God. There's a famine in the land of the time,

so Abram and his wife Sarai moved to a different place, Egypt, and Abram's nephew Lot goes with them,

as well as their servants and animals and possessions. There's some weird stuff that happens where

Abram is afraid of the Egyptian Pharaoh who thinks he's going to steal Sarai and kill him. So Abram convinces

Sarai to pretend to be his sister, which she sort of is. She's his half-sister. And Pharaoh did

kidnap Sarai as Abram feared, and she's basically made to be part of his

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