Good Morning.  So it was, when Abram came into Egypt, that the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very beautiful. The princes of Pharaoh also saw her and commended her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken to Pharaoh’s house. He treated Abram well for her sake. … But...

Good Morning.  Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to dwell there, for the famine was severe in the land. And it came to pass, when he was close to entering Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, “Indeed I know that you are a woman of...

Good Morning.  So they came to the land of Canaan. Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, as far as the terebinth tree of Moreh. And the Canaanites were then in the land. Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this...

Good Morning.  “I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” (Genesis 12:3) Because God placed His favor upon Abraham and his seed, the Adversary has sought to destroy God’ people,...

Good Morning.  “I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing.” (Genesis 12:2) This is the promise made to Abram before he was Abraham: “I will bless you” and “You will be a blessing.” We all embrace the notion...

Good Morning.  Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you.” (Genesis 12:1) At some point in his early life, God had instructed Abram to leave everything behind and go to a...

Good Morning.  This is the genealogy of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begot Lot. And Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans. (Genesis 11:27-28) Among the descendants of Shem was a man called Terah who fathered...

Good Morning.  So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them...

Good Morning.  But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld...

Good Morning.  And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” (Genesis 11:4) The first person on record to build a city is...

Good Morning.  Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. (Genesis 11:3) Babylon was made entirely of brick. Why is that important? Because Jerusalem was made of stone....

Good Morning.  And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. (Genesis 11:2) Jewish commentators believe that this event took place 1996 years after Creation or just 340 years after Flood....