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He burns the idols of the Chaldeans.
...Almighty, [turning away] from the idols that were worshipped in the land of the Chaldeans and destroying their crops. Abraham burned the temple of idols in a village of
Haran perishes by fire.
the Chaldeans. His brother Haran entered to extinguish the fire and was burned.
Abraham flees to Haran.
Therefore, Abraham, at the age of sixty, fled with his father Terah, his brother Nahor, and Lot, the son of his brother Haran who had burned, to the city of Haran, and he dwelled there for fourteen years. Then God spoke to him, saying, "Move from this land, which is in the country of your fathers, to where
He seeks the land of Canaan by God's command.
I command you." He took Sarah his wife and Lot the son of his brother and went up to the land of
He wages war with the kings.
Canaan and fought the kings of Chedorlaomer and defeated them. On his return
He meets Melchizedek.
from the fighting, he met Melchizedek, the High Priest, fell on his face before him, and gave him a tenth of everything he had with him from the spoils, and Melchizedek blessed him. In the eighty-fifth year
He receives a promise from God.
of his life, God promised to make his descendants as the number of the stars in the heaven and the sand of the sea. Abraham trusted in God with true trust. In this year, he entered Egypt, and the beauty of Sarah his wife was reported to Pharaoh Phanus original: "فانوس". Pharaoh asked Abraham about her, and he said, "She is my sister from my father, not from my mother," and he did not lie in saying
Pharaoh takes Sarah.
this, for she was the daughter of his uncle, and their grandfather stood in the place of their father. Pharaoh chose her for himself, keeping her privately until he confirmed that she was his wife, so he returned her.