Chapter 6: Abram’s Call, Egypt, and Separation from Lot

Study notes

Yahweh tells Abram to leave his land for a land Yahweh will show him, and Abram sets out with Lot. As Abram nears Egypt he asks Sarai to say she is his sister, and later he asks Lot to avoid a quarrel and lets him choose which way to go.

From Genesis 12:1 (KoS), Genesis 12:4 (KoS), Genesis 12:11–15 (KoS), Genesis 13:8–9 (KoS).

These notes and questions are original study helps written for this site, not scripture. The verses shown with each question are quoted from the Kingdoms of Scripture Bible.

Notice and discuss

Read each passage, then think about the question on your own or talk it over with others. No answers are collected.

1. What does Yahweh promise when he appears to Abram, and what does Abram do there?

   Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.

   Genesis 12:7 (KoS)

2. What questions does Pharaoh ask Abram, and what does he tell him to do?

   Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she is your wife? Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her as my wife? Now, here is your wife. Take her and go.” Pharaoh gave men orders about him, and they sent him off, him and his wife and all that he had.

   Genesis 12:18–20 (KoS)

3. What reason does Abram give Lot for avoiding a quarrel, and what choice does he offer him?

   Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no quarrel between me and you, or between my herders and your herders, for we are brothers. Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me. If you go left, I will go right. If you go right, I will go left.”

   Genesis 13:8–9 (KoS)