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Herodian building marking Machpelah, the burial place Abraham purchased for Sarah
How Firm a FoundationLesson One: Abram part 1Chapters 1-25
Maps Used with permission from Dr. Terry C. Hulbert
7 days of the Creation week Genesis 1:1-2:3
• The Context: Pentateuch means “five-volume” and was given by God to Moses at Mt. Sinai and in the Wilderness.
• The Audience: The Israelites, descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, had been set free from Egypt and slavery and were about to possess the land of Canaan.
• The Ten Commandments starts with:“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house
of slavery.”
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7 days of the Creation week Genesis 1:1-2:3
The Book of Genesis
Genesis 1-11
1. Generation of
2. Generation of
3. Generation of
4. Generation of
5. Generation of
Genesis 12-50
6. Generation of
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7 days of the Creation week Genesis 1:1-2:3
Day God Said Visible Result Ps. 24:1
1 Let there be Light There was LightThe earth
is the Lord’s2 Let there be expanse in
midst of watersIt was so
3 Let there be dry land and waters become seas
It was so
4 Greater/Lesser Lights/Stars It was so
And everythingin it
5 Birds/water creatures God created them
6 Creatures on earthMankind
It was so
7 God rested on the 7th day God sanctified it
• What God says…is so.• God’s Dominion is over everything.• There is nothing in man’s realm of experience
that is outside of God’s dominion.
Seven Days of Creation Week
7 days of the Creation week Genesis 1:1-2:3
Seven Promises to Abram
Chapter Location Method Receive-Respond
12:1-3 Haran The Lord said Abram went.
The Great Sea
The Black Sea
Nineveh
Egypt
Abraham and Sarah travel from Ur to Haran to Canaan to Egypt
and return to Canaan.
Ur
Haran
From Mesopotamia and Damascus
Salem
E
To Egypt
Jericho
TransJordanian Highway
Shechem Bethel
Hebron
Beersheba
“ . . . All the land which you see, I will give it to you and to your descendants forever.” (13:15)
Abraham arrives in the land God had promised to him in Ur and at Haran.
“To your descendants I will give this land.” (12:7)
To Elat / Gulf of Aqaba
Dead (Salt) SeaJordan Valley
E
Site of Shechem (center, between Mt. Gerizim and Mt. Ebal)
W
From Mesopotamia and Damascus
Salem
E
To Egypt
Jericho
TransJordanian Highway
ShechemBethel
Hebron
Beersheba
Faced with a famine, Abraham travels to Egypt and returns to Bethel. (12:9 – 13:4)
To Elat / Gulf of Aqaba
“He pitched his tent . . . and there built an altar to the Lord, calling on the name of the Lord.” (13:3,4)
The Mediterranean Sea
Dead (Salt) SeaJordan Valley
Nahal Gerar in the Negev“Now Abraham journeyed from there toward the Negev . . . then he journey in Gerar.” (20:1)
Hebron
Salem
WILDERNESS OF ZIN
E
Angels appear to Abraham at Mamre (Hebron) en route to destroy Sodom where Lot lived. (18)
Beersheba
Shechem
GerarNEGEV
The Mediterranean Sea
The (Salt) Dead Sea
Bethel
Jericho Zoar
Sodom / Gomorrah?
3000’
- 1300’-1200’
3000’
(Note relative elevations.)
Abram migrates south to Hebron and the Negev.
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