s his sister, not his wife. The Pharaoh learned the truth, and the Lord inflicted serious diseases on him and his household for taking her. That persuaded him to let Abraham and his family go (Genesis 12:15-17,20). Back in Canaan, he and Lot separated because their herdsmen were arguing. Lot chose the fertile plain by the Jordan to graze at, while Abraham pitched his tent among the oak groves of Mamre, in the hill country near Hebron (Genesis 13:10,18). Abraham lived in the hill country for at lest fifteen years. He strengthened his position with the local Amorites by uniting with them in the rescue of Lot when Sodom and Gomorrah had been taken (Genesis 14:12). On his way back, he was blesssed by Melchizedek, priest-king of Salem, to whom he gave a tenth of everything (Genesis 14:20). God now renewed his promise of a son to Abraham, a pivotal step in creating a new God-chosen people. When no son came, however, his wife suggested he take her maid Hagar as his concubine (Genesis 16:2). When Abraham was eighty-six, Hagar gave birth to Ishmael. Thirteen years later, God told Abraham that the yet-to-come son of Sarah, not Hagar, would be his heir. The Lord appointed the rite of circumcision for the first time as the sign of the covenant made between Him and Abraham (Genesis 17). When two visitors, presumably angels, visited Lot in Sodom, God protected him and his still faithful, at least semi-moral (not to be fully participating in

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