Biblical Stories: Abraham

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Abraham (Hebrew: אַ×'ְרָ×"ָם‎ About this sound listen (help·info); Arabic: إبراهيÙ...‎ʾIbrāhÄ«m), originally Abram, is the first of the three Patriarchs of Israel whose story is told in chapters 11â€"25 of the Book of Genesis. Abram was called by God to leave his father Terah's house and native land of Mesopotamia in return for a new land, family, and inheritance in Canaan, the promised land. Threats to the covenant arose â€" difficulties in producing an heir, the threat of bondage in Egypt, of lack of fear of God â€" but all were overcome and the covenant was established.[2] After the death, and burial of his wife, Sarah, in the grave that he purchased in Hebron, Abraham arranged for the marriage of Isaac to a woman from his own people.[3] Abraham later married a woman called Keturah and had six more sons, before he died at the recorded age of 175, and was buried by his sons Isaac and Ishmael. (Genesis 25:1â€"10)

Abraham plays a role in three world religions: in Judaism, as the founder of the special covenant relationship between the Jewish people and God; for Christians, his faith made him the prototype of all believers; and for Mohammad, the prophet of Islam, Abraham's belief separated "islam", submission to God, from the Jewish Torah.[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham