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PART TWENTY-SIX
THE STORY OF ABRAHAM:
THE PILGRIMAGE OF FAITH
(Genesis, cb. 12; cf. Hebrews 1 1 : 8-19)
1. The Biblical Account
1 Now Jehovah said uizto Abram, Get thee out of thy
country, and from, thy kindred, and from thy father’s
house, unto the land that I will show thee: 2 and I will
make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, azd make
thy name great; and be thou a b1essin.g: 3 a?.td I will bless
them that bless thee, aiid him that curseth thee will I curse:
and iiz thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed,
5. So Abram went, as Jehovah h5ad spoken unto him; and
Lo$ went with him: and Abram was seventy an,d five yews
old when he departed out of Hwan. 5 And Abram took
Sarai his wife, aizd Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance
that they had gathered, aizd the souls tbdit they bad
gotten in Haran; aiqd they went forth to go into the land
of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came. 6 And
Abram passed through the land i~izto the place of Shechem,
unto the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in
the land. 7 And Jehouah appeared uizto= Abram, and said,
Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there budded he
an altar unto Jehovah, who appeared uizto him. 8 And he
removed from thence uiito the mountaiiz on the east of
Bethel, aiid pitched his tentJ having Beth-el 011. the west,
and Ai on, the east: and there he builded an altar unto
Jehwah, and called upon the nmze of Jebowh. 9 And
Abranz jouwieyed, going on still toward the South.
10 And there was a famine in the land: aizd Abram
weiit down iizto EgyPZ to sojoitriz there; for the famine was
sore in the land. 11 And it came to ja~s, when he was
come near to enter into Egypt, that he said uizto Sarai his
wife, Behold I*OW, I know that thou art a fair woman to *
look upon: 12 and it will come to pass, when the Egyptians
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