Abraham in turn Isaac, in turn Jacob ... As you mentioned, the Bible says that Abraham is circumcised. Cohen: Yes. Genesis 17 is the chapter that spells out, repeatedly, that circumcision is ...

Christian theology has long recognized these “visitors” as the Triune God and seen in this passage one of the first allusions ...

Neither Sarah nor Hagar/Ha-jar are mentioned by name in the Qur’an, but the story of Ha-jar’s exile from Abraham’s home is traditionally understood to be referred to in a line from Ibrāhīm’s prayer in ...

Genesis 17:11-14 Abraham kept this covenant and his wife, Sarah, gave birth to their son, Isaac. God chose Isaac to inherit the covenant directly from his father, and Isaac handed it on to his own ...

Eliezer and Rebekah (engraving by Gustave Doré from the 1865 La Sainte Bible) (credit ... the land God gave to Abraham.’” (Gen. 28:3-4). Isaac never intended to give the blessing of the ...

The story of Abraham can be found in the Book of Genesis - the first book in the Christian Bible and in the Torah ... and Abraham had their own son called Isaac. Abraham now had two sons, one ...