Story · 1 · Abraham and Sarah
The Bible begins with an unheroic couple
Its national saga doesn't open with conquering heroes. It opens with an elderly, childless couple told to leave home for an unknown land.
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Abraham is soon shown at his worst, passing Sarah off as his sister to save himself. It takes trials before he understands that the promise depends on her too. A millennium later, exiles would retrace the same trek home from the East.
Bible reference: Genesis 12:1–3
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 19–20
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