Genesis 12
Abram.. a son of a son. 11 generations of sons of shem.
Abram was set into the world from his family village at the age if 75. Lot and Abrams wife sarai left their homes with Abram.
They arrived at the ancient people of egypt. The Egyptians of this time had strange traditions. 1 of these values would be if strangers some to your lands and it is wife and husband. You are not to touch the wife while the husband draws breath.
So kill the husband and sell the wife into slavery would have been the play for these people.. its easy money.
However, if a stranger is to some to Egypt with good intentions, his family alone will be untouched and given the permission of the head of the family (father, older adult brother). So abram told sarai to say they are brother and sister while they pass through egypt.
Sarai was a most beautiful ember and the nobels of egypt saw her. And demanded she meet the pharaoh.
The Egyptians had another tradition amongst the highborn. To court a betrothed women would invoke the wrath of their lesser gods.
The pharaoh was besotted by sarai beauty. And spared no time or no coin trying to flatter her, ox, lambs, donkeys and servants were gifted, abram too was given these gifts. Could be the future brother in law so the pharaoh thought.
Egyptian gods were fickle, and would behave like men.. surly the Egyptian gods would have forgiven the pharaoh for courting sarai, he didnt know she was married.
But the Lord of the Lamplight Holds people to account, and he has a sense of humour.
So the Lord of abram Sent a plague to egypt for courting sarai.
When abram discovered this plague was happening he confessed himself to the pharaoh.
The pharaoh knew the God of Abram walked with him. He was shaken to his spirit.
The Lord of abram is present and close by and he saw the pharoahs trespass by his own words.
The pharaoh sent abram, sarai and lot with all the gifts he had given away out of egypt to banish the plague of his iniquity.
The pharaoh knew. Abrams God was different to the Egyptian gods. And see they would know him themselves.























