Abram and Others

Here I was able to read and understand more about other known stories, such as Babel and the beginning of Abrams. Everything was going on great, and everyone spoke the same language. Many decided to build a city and a tower, but then the Lord confounded the language of many, so they wouldn’t understand each other and then “the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.” (Genesis 11: 9) I think it is important to know why and how this happened, and that way be able to know how there are different people in different places of the world that speak differently.

Generations continue and then we get to Abram. Who was very close to God and built an altar. This I think was probably to offer sacrifices, like the ones they used to do, with the little lamb. I think that the sacrifice was to maybe make the owner of the little lamb feel and actually make a real sacrifice by giving them away, but it also was to praise god and show how much he meant to them.

“The LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.” (Genesis 15: 1) I really like this because we see how God felt and how much he cared about Abram. It makes me think that he thinks the same way about us, and is there to help us and bless us when we have done something good.

Abrams story continues and we read that he and his wife Sarai couldn’t have any children, and so she made her servant his husband’s wife. The servants name was Hagar and she was able to have children with Abram, and even though Sarai was sad, she was happy at the same time for what had happened. This makes me think about Metamorphoses and how love was such an important thing and how it is important in here too.