ABRAHAM and SARA's story from the Bible

The biblical texts They are full of numerous stories about characters who to a greater or lesser extent have been key to the Christian and Jewish religion. Among all the characters, one of the most relevant for their influence in the Old Testament is Abraham. To know his story and that of his wife in this lesson from a TEACHER we are going to offer a summary of Abraham and Sarah from the Bible.

We begin this summary of the story of Abraham and Sarah by talking about the early years of these bible characters. Abraham was a descendant of a long list of relevant biblical characters, his most famous ascendant being the great Noah. When Abraham was already of advanced age, he married his half sister Sarashe, a woman of great beauty but it is said that she was sterile, so she could not have children. Shortly after they were married, Abraham and Sarah marched to the city of Canaan, as God had promised to Abraham that by going to this place he would give him land so that he and his family would form a great town.

Shortly after, and at God's direction, Abraham and Sarah traveled to Egypt, being the place where Abraham realized the beauty of his wife. People say that Abraham hid Sarah in a trunk so that no one would see it, but it is said that some officers forced Abraham to open the trunk and when they saw the Sara's beauty all the officers competed to buy it and she finally she was brought to the very Pharaoh. The couple posed as brothers causing the pharaoh to give Sara many gifts to try win her love, but after realizing that the two were actually married they were expelled from the region. It is said that all those people who tried to possess Sarah were cursed by God, who did not accept that anyone tried to take a married woman.

After years of wandering Egypt, the couple returned to Canaan to spend the rest of their lives in the area, building an altar to God that they visited every day. It was at this stage that Sarah offered her slave to Abraham, so that the follower of God could have a child as Sarah was sterile. Of the relationship between the slave Hagar and Abraham Ismael was born, being a character of great importance in the biblical tradition.

When Abraham reached 99 years of age, he and his wife received a visit from God, who told them that his promise would be fulfilled shortly, and that Sara could father a son. This fact is of great relevance, since it makes Sarah in the only female prophet who received the visit of God, thereby showing the great relevance of it. The son of the couple was Isaac, being a key piece for the evolution of religion.

In partnering with Isaac, men and women in the area who were aware of Sara's infertility said that he was a adopted child and that it really wasn't some kind of miracle that would have made Sara capable of having a child. To show the truth, Abraham and Sarah called everyone to her home, and there Sarah fed them all the children of the guests, thereby proving that the real son had been born from Sara's womb thanks to a miracle of God.

When Isaac was a child, Abraham received the message from God, who asked him to sacrifice Isaac to show the love he had for the Lord. It is said that Abraham was about to sacrifice his son, but then the angel Gabriel appeared who told the servant of God to stop his hand since that was a test from God, who therefore promised Abraham that his offspring would have a great life.

In some sources, Isaac's attempted sacrifice is very attached to the death of Sara, there is a version in which they tell her that Abraham has killed Isaac and Sarah dies of sadness, and another version in which Sarah dies of joy when she discovers that her husband has not killed Isaac.

Even with that, most sources speak that Sara died much later, when Isaac was already much older, since there are many cases in which religious texts have several versions.

To finish this summary of Abraham and Sarah from the Bible we must talk about the last years of life of the couple, to understand the end of the life of two of the main characters in the Bible.

It is said that Sarah and Abraham were going to die at the same age, but God, angered by Sarah's treatment of Hagar, caused Sarah to lose years of life, which is the reason why the couple he couldn't spend his whole life together.

When Isaac was 37 years old, it was the moment that Sara died being one of the longest-lived women dying at 127 years. It is said that Abraham built the tomb of her wife and buried her in the cave of the Patriarchs and that from the day of her wife's death until the end of her he came to see her every day.

After the death of his wife, Abraham had another wife and several other children, though he never wanted his new wife like Sara. Finally Abraham died at the age of 175 years and he was buried next to her wife so that he could spend all eternity with her.