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).

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).

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 ...

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 ...

God has promised to be “mindful of his holy covenant and of the oath he swore to Abraham our father …” (Luke 2:72-73). The amazing thing is that God himself swears oaths, thus binding ...

Abraham is famous for the numerous ways God tested him, especially the two terrible tests: banishing Hagar and his first born son Ishmael (Qur’an 2:124, & Genesis 16:1-16 9:9-21) and calling on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.".