But she failed to reckon with God, who is faithful to his word and capable of bringing it to pass, and in due course Isaac ... time to provide a substitute ram for the sacrifice. Abraham’s ...

When did Judaism as we know it today—devoted to one God and the teachings of the Torah—really take root? How did the religious practices of the earliest Israelites differ from Judaism?

This was not what God had promised and later Sarah and Abraham had their own son called Isaac. Abraham now had two sons, one with his wife Sarah and one with his wife’s servant Hagar.

In Genesis, the first book of the Bible, God ... Abraham’s first wife. This promise contains elements that, in translation, sound like a prediction of hostility between Ishmael and Isaac ...

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 ...