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Abram settles in Hebron and builds an altar to the LORD. God appeared to Abram and reaffirms the promise he has made to him. The promise includes both land and offspring to fill the land—two elements of a great nation. Yet, so far, Abram remains childless, which raises the question of how God will fulfill his promise.

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Genesis 16 demonstrate an important contrast between man's proclivity to choose his own, sinful way and God's steadfastness. In this chapter Sarai and Abram attempt to receive God's promised child through their own scheme. In this case, by having Abram lay with an helpless Egyptian servant girl.

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Jacob sent his sons to Egypt to buy grain, once again. Jacob reluctantly agreed to allow his beloved son Benjamin to accompany them, sending a gift and double the money needed to buy the grain.

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Jacob sends his ten oldest sons to Egypt to buy grain during a famine, unaware that the Egyptian official in charge of grain distribution is actually Joseph, his long-lost son whom the brothers had sold into slavery almost two decades prior.

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God instructs Abram to leave his homeland and promises to make him a great nation, to bless him, and to bless all families of the earth through him. And despite Abram's shortcomings endangering his wife Sarai, God remains faithful to His promise.

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