The reasoning for Abram/ Abraham's reaction before going to
Egypt is unknown. He tells Sarah, she needs to tell the Pharaoh that she is his
sister in order to keep his life, that the Pharaoh would kill him if it was
known they were husband and wife. Sarah tells the lie should was told to tell,
and is they taken as the Pharaoh's wife. The encounter proves that Abraham does
not trust the Pharaoh and thinks the worst of them while the Pharaoh took them
both in during the time of famine to keep them alive. The first love triangle
takes place when Abraham's wife Sarah cannot bear him any children and offers
her servant Hagar as a wife to Abraham of which she will conceive a son. Hagar
bore Abram a son and named him Ishmael. The very human problem that arises from
this conflict of a love triangle is the jealousy Sarah feels toward Hagar after
having a son with her husband. This story shows how the class of Hagar and her
son is not as worthy as that of Sarah and Abraham. When Sarah bore's a son
years later from the miracle of the Lord, she and Abraham agree to send Hagar
and Abraham's first son away. Abraham is tested again by God, a horrific test
of killing his son in cold blood as a sacrifice of the Lord. God needs more
proof because of the previous events that had taken place. I believe his lie to
the Pharaoh makes him untrustworthy, and the way he sends his first son away
because of the replacement of his second son makes him a follower. God wants
proof that he will not be dishonest to him, and that Abraham will not find
another Lord, other than this God.
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