Genesis 21 is the account of Isaac's birth and Ishmael's banishment. Isaac's name means "laughter" because both Abraham and Sarah laughed when they heard...

Genesis 20 is the second account of Abraham lying about his wife being his sister. Both times the King of the area takes Sarah as a wife, but both times God intervenes and keeps Sarah safe and pure...

Lot's life ends with a perplexing, disturbing account in Genesis 19 of his daughters coming to the conclusion that the only way they can continue their father's line...

The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah reminds one of the phrase, "What if your life exists just to serve as a warning to others?"

After God announces His plans to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham intervenes and "bids" with God to get him to relent if 10 righteous people could be found. This whole passage brings up questions about prayer and how we plead with God.

In the first half of Genesis chapter 18, Abraham prepares an elaborate meal when the Lord visits him. And when Yahweh announces that Sarah will bear a child, Sarah laughs to herself because she is almost 90 years old...

Genesis chapter 17 is the account of God changing both Abram and Sarai's names, as well as God instituting circumcision as the sign of the covenant with Abraham...

The last 15 verses of Genesis 15 focus on God's promises of land to Abram in 3 ways: the specific location, God's prophesy about Abram's descendants coming into the land after 400 years of slavery, and most importantly the "covenant ratification ceremony"...

Abram believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness.