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Show Short Stories From The Bible BY C. V. HANSEN ABKAM ENTERS EGYPT A grievous famine invaded the land of Canaan, and Abram had discovered that Egyptians were in, a flourishing condition, and decided de-cided to go down to them.. As he approached Egypt, having Sarai, his wife with him, he was afraid, because of her great beauty, that the king would kill him. in order to secure her, so he contrived this scheme: He pretended to be her brother, and directed her to tell that she was his sister. In this Abram, did not tell a lie, for she was his half eister, having the same father, but not the mother. Now, as soon as they came into Egypt, it happened just as Abram had expected it would, for the fame of his wife's beauty was reported re-ported to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and he demanded that she be brought to him, as he wanted her for himself, and she was brought into his household. The king was very much infatuated with her beauty ,and had a great desire for her. But the Lord put a stop to his foolish inclinations, by sending upon the king and his household great plagues. Fear came upon the king, and discovering discover-ing who she was, he immediately sent for Abram and said, "What is this you have done unto me? Why did you not tell me she was your wife? By saying she was our sister, I might have taken her to be my wife. Now that she is your wife, take her and depart. And the king ordered his servants to help them get ready, but before they went the king presented Abram with gold and silver, caltle, sheep, and camels and man and maid servants. serv-ants. And Josephus tell us, "that the king permitted Abram to enter en-ter into, conversation with the most learned among the Egyptians. Egyp-tians. Abram conferred with each of them, and confuting the reasoning reason-ing they made use of, and demonstrated demon-strated that such reasoning was vain, and void of truth; whereupon where-upon he was admired by them, in those conferences as a very wise man, and one of great sagacity when he discoursed on any subject sub-ject he undertood; and this not only in understanding it, but persuading per-suading other men also to assent to him. He communicated . to them arithmetic, and delivered to them the science of astronomy; for, before Abram came into Egypt they were unacquainted with those pars of learning; for that' science came from thence to the Greek also. (Abram's nephew Lot.) |