After reading chapter 12:
*Approx. 1981 B.C.E., when Abram is 75, he and Lot and thier families set out for Canaan, which God has supposedly promised to give Abram's descendants. Abram appears to be the only one to have seen or heard this pronouncement from God.
*They pitched their tents east of Bethel, which is named that by Abram's grandson Jacob in chapter 28. Huh?
*They travel to Egypt to escape a famine and pharaoh falls for Abram's wife Sarai, who is at least 65 by this time. For fear of his life, Abram does not tell pharaoh Sarai is his wife, but instead accepts slaves and animals in exchange for her.
*Pharoah's household gets sick and it is obvious to him that Abram's wife is the cause. He sends her back and kicks them out of Egypt.
*Amenemhat I was Pharoah from about 1991-1962 B.C.E.
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