about the great flood, but nearly all forgot to tell them of the good God who is the Father of us all, whom we shoul

and no one better than himself to help him but God, and one day He called

," said the Lord, "and I will

Abram a wonde

the families of the

among Abram's children's children, and that He sh

ses, and went into the land of Canaan. When they rested at night Abram and Lot set some sticks in the ground, and covered them with skins for a

food in Canaan, but he came back to Bethel, where

ypt for silver, and gold, and food. Abram and Lot moved often, for their flocks and herds soon ate up the grass

ake his servants, and flocks, and herds, and go where the pastures were good, and he would go the other way. So they parted, and Lot went to the low plains of the Jordan,

o fight. He had more than three hundred men, and they took Lot away from the enemy, and brought him back to Sodom. It was here that Abram m

utside his tent, with the great sky thick with stars above him, God promised him that his children's children sh

most a hundred years old, but God spoke to him again, an

ould be Isaac, and God changed Abram's name to Abraham, which means "

s, and they had come to tell Abraham and Sarah once more that their little child was sure to come. Then the angels went away, but one of them, who must have been the Lord Himself in an angel's form, stopped to tell Abraham that He was going to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, because the people who lived there were so very wicked, and Abraham prayed Him to s

ree st

l upon the wicked cities of the plain, until they became a heap of ashes. Only L

down toward the cities of the plain, a great smok

was born to them, and they called him Isaac. They were very happy, for t

rvant, mocked at Isaac. Sarah was angry, and told her husband that Hagar and her boy must be sent away. So he sent them out with only a bottle of water and a

gar laid her child under a bush to die, for she was very lo

hild," she heard a voice out of he

in the

said the voice, "for I wil

illed the empty bottle, and gave the boy a drink, and God took

became the father of the Arabs, who

ese idols. Abraham brought the best of his lambs and cattle to offer to the Lord; but one day the Lord told Abraham to take his only son Isaac and offer him upon a mountain called Moriah as a burnt sacrifice to God. Abraham had

where the city of Jerusalem was afterward built, and to the very rock upon whi

unt M

oot of the mount, and went with Isaac t

c, "where is the lamb

ring," said his father, still obeying God, and believing

to offer up the boy, the Lord called to him from heaven. "Lay not thine hand upon the lad," said the

ord instead of his son. How glad and grateful Abraham must have been that morning, when he came down the

many days. He bought a field close by the oak-shaded plain of Mamre in Hebron, and there in a rocky ca

in the cave-tomb. Ishmael came up from the south country to mourn with Isaac