Patriarchs
Old TestamentAbraham's Call
A journey of promise
A migration from Mesopotamia to Canaan built around promise, delay and testing.
Reading plan
How the story unfolds
- 1
Leave your country
Abram is told to leave Ur and Haran for a land he will be shown.
- 2
Covenant of the stars
A promise of descendants is sealed in a night-time covenant.
- 3
Names changed
Abram and Sarai become Abraham and Sarah; circumcision is given as sign.
- 4
The binding of Isaac
The most difficult episode in the cycle, on a mountain in Moriah.