BRAGADAYJAH 35

How many years elapsed between Abram’s call to the time he went down to Egypt is not known. But having regard to the time to travel into the land of the Canaanites, his building a house for himself and an alter whereat to worship the Lord, and the time it would have taken him to journey to Egypt, one would say at least five years. If this is a reasonable estimate plus or minus a year or two, Abram would have been around 80 and Sarai 90. Imagine then a 80 or 90 year old woman today who would be able to stir up so much jealousy because of her beauty! But when God is in control, nothing is impossible. One can just imagine, Sarai, a five feet 2 to five feet 5 tops, silver haired beauty, still stirring the hearts of men. Abram went down into Egypt in a state of famine looking for food; but he returned a very rich man, possessing cattle, silver and gold, and Lot also with him, to the tent he had built before, and to the altar which he had built, and there he called upon the name of the Lord. Before going down into Egypt, Abram and Lot struggled to make ends meet; but after returning to Bethel, they were both so rich, and their substance so great, that a dispute arose between Abram’s herdsmen and Lot’s, to the extent that they decided that they could no longer dwell together. Clearly they both had the same kind of animals and it was not easy to keep track of each new birth, and so able to distinguish between which was which or whose was whose. So Abram being a just man said now let there be no strife between us or our herdsman; let us go our separate ways. More