WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -From Ur, Abraham traveled 700 miles to the borders of present-day Iraq, another 700 miles into Syria, another 800 down to Egypt by the inland road, and then back into Canaan-what is now Israel. It is a journey that today’s pilgrim, for reasons of international polity, cannot easily replicate.

Detailed explanation-2: -[Gen. 12.7]. Nevertheless, as soon as Abraham arrived in the town of Sichem in Canaan, there was a famine which forced him to go to Egypt where the Nile’s annual tides guaranteed good harvests. This story was repeated at the end of the Book of Genesis when Abraham’s grandson Jacob went to Egypt with all his tribe.

Detailed explanation-3: -Abraham and his wife Sarah, lived in a place called Ur. Abraham was a faithful man of God. One day God told Abraham to take all his family and belongings and leave Ur and settle in a new land called and start a new nation of people.

Detailed explanation-4: -Abram and Sarai tried to make sense of how he would become a progenitor of nations, because after 10 years of living in Canaan, no child had been born.