After recounting a long list of media sequences that lived 400 years each (although ironically, God said that man would live alone after the flood no more than 120 years). It begins to tell the story of Abraham ...
INTRODUCTION TO EGYPT COMES AS ABRAHAM
Genesis 12
Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country and thy kindred, and the house of your father, and the land I will show.
I will make of thee a great nation and I will bless thee, and make thy name, and will be a blessing. Bless them that bless thee, and curse him who curses you , and be blessed through you all the families of the earth.
The god "fair" (presumably created all men), as has become custom, Abraham takes preference to the point of "curse" anyone who curse him.
And Abram departed as the LORD had said, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five when he left Haran. then took his wife Sarai Abram , and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions they had won and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they departed to go into the land of Canaan and the land of Canaan they came.
I note, if any such data is lost: Sarai is his wife.
And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh, and the Canaanite was then in the land. the LORD appeared to Abram and said, Unto thy seed have I given this land. And there he built an altar to Jehovah who had appeared. Then it went from there to a mountain east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west and Ai on the east, and built there an altar to the LORD and invoked the name of Abram departed Jehová.Y journeyed, going to the Negev.
Stay with that information as well: It is God who decides to give "the land". Da As to whom it belonged, when God orders his poor servants ... this, "very reluctantly" can not resist (irony implied).
there was a famine in the land, and Abram to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was grievous in the land.
Go .. God chose to chose a good land ... that if this does not "flowed with milk and honey" (we know that God likes to starve his people every few minutes). May have given them food as God miraculously but likes to do everything complicated instead of simple (miraculous plagues makes comfortable, that if, feeding seems cost a lot) ...
ABRAHAM: The cowardly and manipulative (THANK GOD)
to pass that he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, Behold, now that you know beautiful woman appearance, and when the Egyptians see you, say, is his wife and kill me, they will let you life. Now therefore say you are my sister so that I do well for your sake , and my soul shall live because of thee.
And here comes through Abraham the coward ... who is able to tell his wife to pass off as his sister for fear that someone wants it and disposing him.
came about when Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very fair. Also saw the princes of Pharaoh, and commended her before, and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
to God should be reminded that later would these laws against adultery LE 20:10-12, DT 22:22 If you feel so bad adultery why do not you say anything to Abraham? Why Abraham left that allowed his wife to go to Pharaoh's house to become his wife?
And he entreated Abram well for her sake, and he had sheep, cows, donkeys, servants, maids, donkeys and camels.
You know why. And you will wonder to whom God punished ...
LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.
And if you wonder if the poor Pharaoh knew if his wife were married or not:
Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this you have done to me? Why not tell me that was your wife? Why did you say is my sister, putting on the occasion of women take it for me? Then
Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and accompanied him and his wife,
with everything he had.
Genesis 13
Increased So Abram from Egypt to the Negev, he and his wife, and all I had, and Lot with him. And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver and gold. And went on his journeys from the Negev to Bethel, unto the place where he had been before his tent between Bethel and Hai, the place of the altar that had been there before, and there Abram called the name of Jehovah. Lot, who went with Abram, had flocks, herds and tents. And the land was not able to dwell together, for their substance was great, and they could not dwell in one place.
After that, the Bible tells the whole story about Sodom and Gomorrah and as Lot offers his two daughters to violate the crowd to keep that same crowd will not infringe on two premises angels sent by God, as God tells Lot to flee and not look back, and God turns his wife into a pillar of salt, and their two daughters got him drunk and, mysteriously, is violated by them without realizing it, etc.
AND ABRAHAM BACK TO PLAY AGAIN WITH HIS WIFE FOR RICHES by deception.
Genesis 20
Abraham journeyed from thence to the land of the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar. And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.
Abraham And here again to take the same strategy that worked so well with the poor Pharaoh. And who blame God?
But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said, Behold, you are dead because of the woman you have taken, which is married to husband.
And poor Abimelech confesses unaware of the situation of Sarah.
But Abimelech had not come to her and said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation? Is not he told me: My sister is, and she also said: He is my brother? the integrity of my heart and cleanness of my hands I have done this.
And here the Hebrew God admits that he knew the situation ..
God said to him in dreams, I also know that the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld thee from sinning against me, and so do not let you touch her. Now therefore restore the man his wife, he is a prophet, and pray for you, and live.
might well have acted as God to Abraham if sin was that act. Instead of blaming or warn Abraham of the measure, it punishes the innocent who did not know he was committing adultery (sin morally bad for Judeo-Christian God). But God does not punish the real culprit, it is Abraham, prefers to punish even the innocent victims.
And if thou restore her not, know that you shall surely die, and all yours. Abimelech rose early and called all his servants and told all these things in their ears, and men feared greatly.
As previously and Pharaoh did with Abraham ....
Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said: What have you done? How have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? What ought not to have done to me. And Abimelech said to Abraham: What did you think, for you to do this?
And Abraham confesses his cowardice ... Not only that, he admits that he married his sister.
And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely there is no fear of God in this place and kill me because of my wife. And indeed she is my sister, daughter my father, but not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife.
And why using this strategy so mean to her sister? Because that the same order (although it sounds absurd) God ever made him lie to the people by his sister.
And when God caused me to wander from the house of my father, I said: This is the mercy that you will do me in every place whither we shall come, say of me is my brother.
And with Pharaoh, Abimelech give away assets that God forgives him.
Abimelech took sheep and oxen and male and female slaves and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah his wife. And d ¼ or Abimelech, Behold my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee. And Sarah said, Behold I have given a thousand pieces of silver to your brother, and behold, he is to thee a covering of the eyes of all who are with you, and for all, and was vindicated. Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife, and his servants, and had children. For the LORD had closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah Abraham's wife.
Note: Like other biblical characters, Abraham traveled from city to city gaining wealth through the manipulation, deceit and war (all with the divine approval and support of course)
Conclusion: Okay deceive long as you report benefits. You can even deny your wife and your sister go through it so you do not kill anyone who falls in love with her ... that God will not punish you but to the poor sucker who commits adultery without knowing it.
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