12:10-20 - What a strange story! Abram and Sarai (pre-Abraham and Sarah) go to Egypt because of famine, and Abram tells his wife to pretend she's his sister...so that the Egyptians don't kill him!?! Then Sarai is taken into the Pharaoh's palace! And then God afflicts the Egyptians with "mighty plagues," which leads Pharoah to tell Abram to take is wife and go!?!? Weird.
15:18 - Is this a strange verse, or am I missing something? Here, God says to Abram "'Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates," but then goes on to add in the next three verses "the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.'" In other words, God seems to be promising not "Greater Israel" to the Jews, but rather the entire Middle East to a number of different, non-Jewish peoples.
16:12 - An angel tells Sarai that "[Ishmael] shall be a wild ass of a man"...!!!
17:10-14 -Slaves must be circumcised too?!? I thought this was only for Jews!
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
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