God’s covenant with Abraham is depicted in a medieval illustration from a manuscript from around the 13th century, Rudolf von Ems’ depiction in the Weltchronik (World History).

In the story, God puts Abraham to the test, asking him to “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of ...

When Jacob neared the day of his death, he adjured Joseph to swear that he would not be buried in Egypt but rather be interred in the land of Canaan – the land that God promised to Abraham’s ...

The covenant was for Prophet Abraham and his offspring, ... As part of this covenant, God gives Moses and the descendants of Jacob the ongoing Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:1-17).

God says about Abraham, “For I have known him, that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice; to the end ...

Story of Abraham and Isaac teaches, "what it means to fear God And it means this: To fear God is to do whatever He asks of us, when He asks.".

In a culture obsessed with external success, platform, and applause, God is looking for something very different. He boasts ...

The Torah details this for us as well: “in order to establish you this day as His people, and that He will be your God.” A mutual covenant of belonging, as we declare in the prayers of Yom ...

We saw last week the central point of Abraham’s (still, technically, Abram’s) life: God made a covenant with him. Having led him out of his homeland to an unknown foreign land, God now enters ...

Isaac is the fulfillment of God’s promise, the long-awaited and almost-despaired-of biological heir and heir of the covenant. Now God asks Abraham to sacrifice him. For many people, God’s ...

So God’s promise to Prophet Abraham, that the other families of humankind will ultimately bless themselves, and one another, thus aspiring to be like Abraham’s descendants (Genesis 12:3; 18:18 ...