ISAAC AND ISHMAEL - The Old Testament, ep. 10 - EN

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Sar'ai is still without child and decides to offer Abraham her Egyptian slave, Hagar, so that Abraham can have someone with whom to father a child. Hagar then gives birth to a boy Abraham names Ishmael, meaning "God is listening”. After many years God, God promises Sarai a child on the condition that she keep her faith. Yahweh (God) visits Sar'ai, just as he’d promised, and Sar'ai conceives, delivering Abraham a son in his old age just as the Lord had promised him. Abraham calls his second son Isaac, and has him circumcised. Sar'ai is then known as “Sarah” according to the will of the Lord. Abram's first son, Ishmael, is now a young boy. One day Sar'ai sees him playing with his half brother, Isaac. In a fit of jealousy, she prays to the Lord, demanding that Ishmael and his mother, Hagar, be sent away from the caravan so that the boy will not inherit a share of Abraham's wealth. Abraham is very upset by her request, but reluctantly he agrees. The Lord promises that he will make Ishmael a great nation, and leads him and his mother through the desert to the wilderness of Paran. God tests Abraham by asking him to sacrifice his long awaited son, lsaac. Abram is mortified God’s request, finding incomprehensible. But, reluctantly, he decides to obey. He walks up the mountain, builds an altar, takes out his knife and is about to carry out the command of the Almighty, when an angel of the Lord stops him. At this moment, the Lord has proof of Abraham's absolute faith and promises: "I will multiply your descendents as the stars of heaven and the sand on the seashore”. Abraham looks around and sees a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. He takes it and offers it as a sacrifice to the Lord on the altar he had prepared for his son.. "In the beginning"... with these words the Bible begins the story of the great mystery of the origins of time, existence and the h­istory of the Universe. It also contains the proclamation of the Word of God, invisible and omnipotent, creator of heaven and earth, who turns once more to his people with the promise of the salvation which man has awaited since the moment of his creation and of his first sin...This is the subject of the "most widely-read book in the world" from which, in thirty-nine episodes, we evoke characters and events so that young people of the new generations can appreciate the richness of this great treasure.