Jochebed took good care of her baby-son. As she grew older, she told him about the true God who had saved him from death and would care for him, even in the king’s palace. The day came when Moses had to go to the palace, to the princess. When he went out in his fine […]
A new baby-boy! How happy his mother Jochebed and father Amram would have been but for the latest law of the cruel Egyptian king! Every new-born Israelite boy was to be thrown into the River Nile. Jochebed looked at her beautiful baby. “He must not be drowned,” she said, “I shall hide him. I know
The beautiful girl ran to her home and narrated the whole incident to her mother. Laban was Rebekah’s brother and he rushed to the spring where Abraham’s servant was waiting. He welcomed the man and said that he was honoured to meet someone who was blessed by Jehovah. Laban took him to his room and
She quickly gave him water and then offered to pour water to his camels as well. As said, she drew water from the well and poured for the camels to drink water. She repeated the process until the camels were content. Abraham’s servant politely watched the whole process and in the end was happy that
As Abraham become quite old, he called his trusted servant and asked to help him as he had to make a promise to Jehovah. He didn’t want his son to marry the daughter of Canaan and Instead, he wanted a girl from his own country. He asked his servant to go to the land and
Abraham and his son reached the place where they were supposed to offer the burnt offerings. His son eagerly asked him where the lamb was that had to be offered. Abraham said,” Son, God will provide us with the lamb.” He quickly built an altar there and made the preparation for the offerings and put
Sarah had a son, and she named him as Isaac. Abraham organized a big feast, on the day when Isaac was named. One day, Sarah saw her son playing with the Hagar of Egypt. She was angry and asked Abraham to throw out the girl, who was slave, and her son. Abraham was displeased with
After leaving outside the city, the angels asked the family to run for their lives and also instructed them not to look back at all. Also, they asked them to reach a height where no one could destroy them at all. He was asked to be away from the plain surface, as it could endanger
The next day, the people from his village came knocking down his door. They wanted him to hand over those men to him and warned him that if he didn’t do so then he would also be treated the same way, maybe worse. Lot said, “My friends! they are people who took shelter at my
Jehovah told Abraham that the people of Sodom and Gomorrah were sinners, and he was going down to see what the complaints were. Abraham asked him, “ How will you differentiate the good people from the bad ones? It is not good to penalize all of them, as few of them are not good.” Jehovah
Zoar looked quite beautiful and fresh, as Jehovah would have wanted it to be. However, Lot was not happy with the plain surface of Jordan. He went ahead and choose for himself all the valley of Jordan and moved to far-off places like Sodom. However the people here were very wicked and didn’t like Jehovah
Noah had three sons and they were named Shem, Ham and Japheth respectively. Haran was known as the Father of lot and he was the descendent of Terah or Shem. One day, Jehovah asked Abraham to go far into a land, away from his father, family and house. He said, “ I will tell you
Adam passionately named his wife as Eve, and she is known to be the mother of all living beings. They both had two sons, one named as Abel who was a shepherd and the other one Cain, a farmer. He took some of the best fruits, vegetables and grains from his garden and presented them
After they both had enjoyed the fruit, they felt asleep. They both got up and found they were dressed in fig- leaves. It was morning, the time when Jehovah walked out in the garden to enjoy his creation. The man and the woman saw Him and quickly hid behind a big tree. Jehovah was smart
Amongst all other things that God made, the serpent was more clever and deceitful. One day, he told the woman that God allowed it to eat the fruits from all the trees, except one. It puzzled the woman and she said that, “God allowed her to eat fruits from all the trees, however except the