Further, Abimelech gave Abraham a thousand pieces of silver to serve as Sarah's vindication before all. According to Pirkei Avot, Abraham underwent ten tests at God's command. [42], Paintings on the life of Abraham tend to focus on only a few incidents: the sacrifice of Isaac; meeting Melchizedek; entertaining the three angels; Hagar in the desert; and a few others.

The place was later named as Jehovah-jireh. Abraham rushed to Sarah's tent to order ash cakes made from choice flour, then he ordered a servant-boy to prepare a choice calf. [Genesis 12:14–17] Upon discovering that Sarai was a married woman, Pharaoh demanded that Abram and Sarai leave. [Genesis 18:1–8]. Besides Ishaq and Yaqub, Ibrahim is among the most honorable and the most excellent men in sight of God. His thesis centered on the lack of compelling evidence that the patriarchs lived in the 2nd millennium BCE, and noted how certain biblical texts reflected first millennium conditions and concerns. Abimelech claimed ignorance of the incident. Abram refused any deal from the king of Sodom, other than the share to which his allies were entitled.

[37] Islamic traditions consider Ibrāhīm the first Pioneer of Islam (which is also called millat Ibrahim, the "religion of Abraham"), and that his purpose and mission throughout his life was to proclaim the Oneness of God.

"[Genesis 19:27–29], Abraham settled between Kadesh and Shur in what the Bible anachronistically calls "the land of the Philistines". In 1994, Steve Reich released an opera named The Cave. The base is approximately 4 × 8 × 4 feet. [Genesis 21:8–13], Ishmael was fourteen years old when Abraham's son Isaac was born to Sarah. From that day onward, the well was called Beer-lahai-roi, ("The well of him that liveth and seeth me."

In Judaism, he is the founding father of the Covenant, the special relationship between the Jewish people and God – leading to the belief that the Jews are the Chosen People of God. The Old Testament scenes depicted were chosen as precursors of Christ's sacrifice in the New Testament, in an early form of typology. [Genesis] For Sarah, the thought of giving birth and nursing a child, at such an old age, also brought her much laughter, as she declared, "God hath made me to laugh, so that all who hear will laugh with me. Further, to attest that Abraham was the one who dug the well, he also gave Abimelech seven ewes for proof. In Jewish tradition, Abraham is called Avraham Avinu (אברהם אבינו), "our father Abraham," signifying that he is both the biological progenitor of the Jews and the father of Judaism, the first Jew. The human condition was central to his concerns, and Segal used the Old Testament as a source for his imagery. Synonymes de "Patrie d'Abraham" Définition ou synonyme. God afflicted Pharaoh and his household with plagues, which led Pharaoh to try to find out what was wrong. God reassured Abraham that "in Isaac shall seed be called to thee.

The other is on the "Sunday of the Forefathers" (two Sundays before Christmas), when he is commemorated together with other ancestors of Jesus.

This sculpture depicts the dilemma faced by Abraham when Sarah demanded that he expel Hagar and Ishmael. One of the visitors told Abraham that upon his return next year, Sarah would have a son. Then Abraham defended what he had said as not being a lie at all: "And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

While at the tent entrance, Sarah overheard what was said and she laughed to herself about the prospect of having a child at their ages.

God described to Abram the land that his offspring would claim: the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaims, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites. "[Genesis 21:12] He also said that Ishmael would make a nation, "because he is thy seed". [Genesis 19:12–13], Early the next morning, Abraham went to the place where he stood before God. Abraham then offered to wash their feet and fetch them a morsel of bread, to which they assented. She was told to call her son Ishmael. However, Abraham's nephew, Lot, met with them and strongly insisted that these two "men" stay at his house for the night. In solo portraits a sword or knife may be used as his attribute, as in this statue by Gian Maria Morlaiter or this painting by Lorenzo Monaco. In response, God told Abimelech that he did indeed have a blameless heart and that is why he continued to exist. [8], Abraham's story, like those of the other patriarchs, most likely had a substantial oral prehistory,[9] and his name is apparently very ancient, as the tradition found in Genesis no longer understands its original meaning (probably "Father is exalted" – the meaning offered in Genesis 17:5, "Father of a multitude", is a popular etymology). Sarai responded by mistreating Hagar, and Hagar fled into the wilderness. [Genesis 25:7–10][1 Chronicles 1:32], In the early and middle 20th century, leading archaeologists such as William F. Albright and biblical scholars such as Albrecht Alt believed that the patriarchs and matriarchs were either real individuals or believable composites of people who lived in the "patriarchal age", the 2nd millennium BCE. Once Abram received this news, he immediately assembled 318 trained servants. [52] The song has five stanzas. [17], Abraham is given a high position of respect in three major world faiths, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. There was a severe famine in the land of Canaan, so that Abram and Lot and their households traveled to Egypt. See for example this 11th-century Christian altar engraved with Abraham's and other sacrifices taken to prefigure that of Christ in the Eucharist. [2], The narrative in the Book of Genesis revolves around the themes of posterity and land. [14], Nevertheless, the completion of the Torah and its elevation to the centre of post-Exilic Judaism was as much or more about combining older texts as writing new ones – the final Pentateuch was based on existing traditions. Abram and Sarai tried to make sense of how he would become a progenitor of nations, because after 10 years of living in Canaan, no child had been born. Thus in Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, a 5th-century mosaic portrays only the visitors against a gold ground and puts semitransparent copies of them in the "heavenly" space above the scene. [25] He was also mentioned as the father of thirty nations.