Abram, who was later named Abraham (“The Father of Many Nations”), a native of Ur in Mesopotamia, was called by God (Yahweh) to leave his own country and people and journey to an un designated land, where he would become the founder of a new nation. He obeyed the call unquestioningly and at 75 years of age proceeds with his barren wife, Sarai, later named Sarah (“Princess”), his nephew Lot, and other companions to the land of Canaan (between Syria and Egypt).
There the childless septuagenarian received repeated promises and a covenant from God that his “seed” will inherit the land and become a numerous nation. Eventually, he not only has a son, Ishmael, by his wife’s maidservant Hagar but has, at 100 years of age, by Sarah, a legitimate son, Isaac, who was to be the heir of the promise. Yet Abraham was ready to obey God’s command to sacrifice Isaac, a test of his faith, which he was not required to consummate in the end because God substitutes a ram. At Sarah’s death, he purchases the cave of Machpelah near Hebron, together with the adjoining ground, as a family burying place. It is the first clear ownership of a piece of the promised land by Abraham and his posterity. Toward the end of his life, he saw to it that his son Isaac marries a girl from his own people back in Mesopotamia rather than a Canaanite woman. Abraham did at the age of 175 and was buried next to Sarah in the cave of Machpelah.
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