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Genesis, Their children, "Father of the Israelites" - Coggle…

- - - - Noah (note - this story and the story of Gilgamesh are similar)
        
        God decided to spare him from the flood because he had taken favor to Noah, because he was the only righteous man in his generation.
        
        Noah builds the Ark; definitely hard for himself and his family due to people thinking they were crazy. Despite this, Noah stayed faithful to the Lord
        
        Had 3 sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth; Through his lineage came Abraham
        
        Abraham
        
        Abraham's covenant: 1. God gives him the Promised Land of Canaan 2. As many descendants as stars in the sky 3. Abraham's family blessed
        
        In return, Abram makes a covenant with God that in exchange for all this, every man among him must be circumcised
        
        Marries Sarai, who was unable to bear children, so he had intercourse with his maid servant Hagar and had Ishmael
        
        Sarai gets angry at Hagar for being able to bear children while she can't, resulting in Hagar and Ishmael running away for a little while, before eventually returning because God told her everything would work out
        
        Sarai is later able to have children at last, giving birht to Isaac
        
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        God tests Abraham by making him believe he has to sacrifice Isaac in order to prove his loyalty to the Lord; God later changes his name to Abraham and his wife's to Sarah
        
        God later decides to make a covenant with Noah that he will never flood the Earth that way again - in the sign of a rainbow
  - - - Killed by his brother Cain
  - - - Killed his brother