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

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

scripture for truth. In Acts 1711, Luke praises the Bereans who did this.

He says, now the Bereans Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica,

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 confused. 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 am not the final word on anything. Okay, today in our

reading we open with Abraham remarrying after Sarah's death.

His second wife is named Ketura. And even though he's super old, he has 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's also the

only child of Abraham's first wife, Sarah. Abraham dies at 175 years old. His son with Hagar, Ishmael,

died a few decades later when he was 137. We encounter a few lines of genealogies here,

but resist the urge to skip past those. Let your eyes fall on

every word. You won't remember it all, but once you see something several times, it starts to stick

with you little by little. And here's one of my favorite pro tips. If you get bogged down trying to

pronounce all the names in genealogies as you read them, Maybe try having an audio Bible app read them to you.

After the genealogies, we get bits and pieces of a few storylines throughout the rest of our reading.

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