Lesson III. Abram

Jesse Lyman Hurlbut · 1907

Retold story (not Scripture)
This is a storyteller's retelling from an old children's book. Read the Bible passage for God's own words.

Bible: Genesis 12—13 · 1 min read · All ages

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(Tell Stories 4 and 5. It might be well to end the story, for the present, at the foot of page 52, and leave the story of Lot for the next lesson.)

1. What was the name of the first large city built after the great flood? Bā´bel, afterward called Băb´y̆-lon.

2. What happened to the people who were building a great tower in this city? They could not understand each other's speech.

3. What did these people of different languages do? They went away to different lands.

4. Who was Ā´brăm? A good man, who prayed to God.

5. To what did all the other people of Ā´brăm's time pray? To gods of wood and stone.

6. What did God tell Ā´brăm to do? To go to a land far away.

7. What was God's promise to Ā´brăm? "I will be with thee and bless thee."

8. To what land did Ā´brăm go, obeying God's word? To the land of Cā´năan.

9. How did Ā´brăm and his family live in the land of Cā´năan? In tents, moving from place to place.

10. What did Ā´brăm build whenever he set up his tent? An altar for prayer to God.

Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, Hurlbut's Bible Lessons for Boys and Girls (Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., copyright 1907). Public domain. Transcription by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (pgdp.net). printed page 8. Source

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