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Bible Book Club

Genesis 17: Circumcision and the Other Son, Ishmael

Bible Book Club

Susan Merrill & Heather Rubio

Exodus, Susan Merrill, Spirituality, Heather Rubio, Bible, Genesis, Christianity, Leviticus, Bible Book Club, Religion & Spirituality, Religion

4.8589 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In Genesis 17, we move ahead 13 years to where Abraham is 99 years old and baby Ishmael is now a teenager at 13. God speaks to Abraham and tells him that the child that will fulfill the blessing is coming. Also in this chapter, Abram and Sarai get a name change, and all the men in Abraham's family get a physical reminder of this covenant. Make sure to take a peek at the show notes below for Hayley's recap! Show Notes BlogShow notes are also available to view on Susanme.com/podcast. Conta...

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0:00.0

If you're the only one in your book club who wants to read books that will change your life, you need a new book club.

0:07.5

And we think you found it.

0:09.1

I'm Heather.

0:09.8

And I'm Susan.

0:11.0

And can we be the first to say, welcome to the club?

0:18.1

Here we go.

0:19.3

Let's keep on going with the consequences of our actions. So last episode, just to recap, God made this Abrahamic covenant. And Abraham and Sarah, they doubt God. God gave him some promises, but they decide they're not ready to wait. Now, in Abraham's defense, he was like 80-something years old when he finally had the first child,

0:41.7

which, you know, it would be hard not to doubt.

0:45.3

Yeah, if he was really analyzing the word, God said, your son will be your flesh and blood.

0:50.4

So he could have been thinking, well, gosh, if I have a child with Agar, it's still my flesh

0:54.1

and blood right

0:54.7

i probably should jump on it you know i probably felt to him like it was dragging on a long time so

1:00.7

yeah they did what they did and then hagar got pregnant with abraham's first son and then because

1:07.5

of that she started to mistreat Sarai and then Sarah was...

1:11.8

No, Sarah I mistreated Hagar.

1:13.7

Both of them were mistreating each other.

1:15.2

Oh, yeah, that's true.

1:16.0

Yeah, yeah.

1:16.4

They were both kind of being jerks to each other.

1:18.9

Hagar had attitude, yeah.

1:20.4

They were just being kind of nasty to each other.

1:23.1

Yes.

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