Genesis 22:
1 Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here am I, he replied
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Genesis 21:
3 When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him as God commanded him.
In previous meditations, we saw God cutting a covenant with Abraham. Abraham, taking a heifer, a goat and a ram, each, three years old, and a dove and a pigeon, cuts the animals in half and kills the fowls. Into this arranged row of two halves of animals, descends God to walk. It’s a great enacted statement of being one with with Abraham. It says, “My life is for your life. Any one that touches you has also touched me. I’m in covenant with you. If you are attacked, I’m also attacked. If I fail to come to your aid and help, then the life of the betrayer amongst the two parties will be as the end of those animals and fowls.” Covenant is supposed to be between two, but this is initiated by God, even though He is one.
Genes 20:
5 “…. I have done this with a clear conscience and clear hand.”
The above statement is part of the fragment of Abimelech’s argument before God.
Genesis 19
27 And Abraham get up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord
28 And looked towards Sodom and Gomorrah and towards all the land of the plain, and behold, and lo, the smoke if the country went up as the smoke of a furnace