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

I want to start today out with a bit of encouragement. I love seeing that you're all

looking to scripture for truth. In Act 1711 Luke praised the Bereans who did this. He said,

Now the Burian Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalenica

for they received the message with great eagerness

and examined the scriptures every day to see if what Paul said

was true. Please do that with everything I say here. Because first of all, there may be times

when I'm just plain wrong about something.

I go to great lengths to avoid that, but it's bound to happen at some point.

And then at other times, I may not communicate something in the clearest way possible,

and it may end up being confusing. So, forgive me for any missteps I make in communication

and know that I make every effort to speak truth with clarity.

And keep searching the scriptures because I'm not the final word on anything.

Today in our reading we opened with Abraham remarrying after Sarah's death.

His second wife is named Katura and even though he was super old he had had six more kids, which brings us to a grand total of eight.

But all his inheritance goes to Isaac, as God told him, because Isaac is the child through which God would establish his promise to Abraham.

He was also the only child of Abraham's first wife.

Abraham died at 175 years old.

His son with Hagar, Ishmael, died a few decades later when he was 137.

We encountered a few lines of genealogies there, but resist the urge to skip past those.

Let your eyes fall on every word. You won't remember it all, but once you've

seen something several times it will start to stick with you little by little.

...