After Babel, the camera zooms in. From seventy nations to one line. Ten generations from Shem to Abram. The lifespans are shrinking—600 years, then 400, then 200. Mortality is tightening its grip. And then we meet the family: Terah fathers Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Terah starts toward Canaan but stops in Haran. So close, but not there. And then the sentence that changes everything: “Now Sarai was barren; she had no child.” The entire rescue plan has narrowed to one man with a wife who cannot conceive. If there’s going to be a child, God will have to do it. This is how God works—through impossibility. The seed is still coming.

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