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easy it is for us to run off their names like one, two, three, yet what strange things happened to them. I think the most wonderful of all the events of their lives is that God added His own name to theirs, an honor He has never given to any other human beings. For He says of Himself, “I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.”
When Abraham left his father and his relations and went into the land of Canaan, as God told him to do, it was a time when many other men were leaving their old homes in Mesopotamia to go into new parts of the world, just as men went out in colonies to America when it was discovered. It was sixty-five years after he left Haran when he sent back for a wife for Isaac. This is the way to count it. Abraham was seventy-five years old when he left his home, one hundred years when Isaac was born, and Isaac was forty when Rebekah came to him. How old forty seems to us! But forty could not have appeared more than twenty does