how Moses, the biblical author, is willing to treat his heroes.

He's not whitewashing Abram.

And he's told us, Abram is righteous by faith.

And then he shows us how Abram is not righteous by his deeds in this chapter.

And what's astounding here is how quickly, I mean, Sarah comes up with this plan

and how quickly they jettison it, how quickly they are over it and done with it.

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My name is Alex Duke, and with me are Jim Hamilton and Sam Amati.

Alex, I'm getting a distinct feeling of deja vu right now.

Why would that be happening?

Sam, that's because we have already tried to start this episode once and you failed to press record.

But we only wasted about two minutes of our lives.

So that's okay.

All those jokes are lost, never to be heard by anyone except for us, and your dog, Henry.

You handled it with a lot of grace, Alex. Thank you, thank you. So here we are, brothers, episode

five, Lord willing, we're going to talk about Genesis chapters 15 through 17 today. All right,

brothers, last time we talked about Genesis chapter 12 to 14. And this time, Lord willing,

we're going to talk about

Genesis 15 through 17 and so far we've seen that Abram has had some ups and some downs we talked

about those last week we mentioned at the end of Genesis 12 the episode in Egypt where he he lies about

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