Introduction to the Patriarchal Story: Genesis 12-50 -- Structure and Growth of Genesis 12-25 -- Transition to the Story of Abraham: Genesis 11:27-32 -- Promise to Abraham and Migration: Genesis 12:1-9 -- The Ancestral Mother in Danger -- Abraham and Lot on the Way -- Abraham and the Kings -- The Promise to Abraham -- Sarah and Hagar: Flight and Promise of a Son -- The Covenant with Abraham -- Abraham and the Three Guests -- Abraham Queries the Destruction of Sodom -- The Destruction of sodom and the Rescue of Lot -- Lot's Daughter -- Abraham and Abimelech -- The Birth of Isaac.