#67 Take My Wife, Please!

Deep-Grace Diving with Tim Wright and Terey Summers · Sep 10, 2025 · 32m

After being called to be the Father of the Hebrews, and told that through him all nations would be blessed, Abram and Sarai head to Egypt where, in a huge plot twist, Abram becomes the bad guy and the Pharaoh the good guy.

What is God up to?

(Check out this excellent book on Genesis: Reading Genesis, by Marilynne Robinson!)

Genesis 12:10ff (See also Genesis 20)

Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to reside there as an alien, for the famine was severe in the land. 11 When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “I know well that you are a woman…