Contributed by Mark A. Barber on Feb 11, 2014
                    
                
                
                    It had been thirteen years since the birth of Ishmael. God makes a sudden appearance with a startling announcement. We will also be introduced to a new covenant of circumcision which is a conditional covenant unlike that of Genesis 15
                
                    
                        The Life of Abraham, Part 8: Thirteen Years Later
Genesis 17:1-27
Introduction
In the last lesson, it finally looked from Abram’s point of view that God had satisfied Abram’s long awaited promise of a son named Ishmael. At the age of eighty-six, Abram was a dad in his own right. Hagar had acted
                        
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