Thursday, June 01, 2006

The story of Sarah - Part I

Genesis 11: Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.

She is praised as the mother of believers! hailed as one of the most beautiful women who ever lived. Called as Sarai, which means "my princess", she holds a great lot of character which we don't even know about.

Now, who is this Sarai? You would remember that I told about Seth in my earlier post. Seth had children and grand children and so on.. and in that generation came a guy called Abraham. Christians these days regard him as 'father of all believers', jews hail him as 'their father' and muslims hail him as 'Ibrahim'. Sarai was the niece of Abraham and he later married her.

They lived in Canaan (the israel of now) with their father and Abraham's nephew, Loth. Sarai was beautiful yet graceful. She revered her husband and called him her 'master'. She took care of her home and the jewish history says that her house was always hospitably open, she prepared the dough for her house which was miraculously increased and she took care of her husband nephew.

Now all seems rosy, you would say. Abraham had the perfect wife one could wish for.. one whose beauty captivated everyone, one who respected her husband, one who was dutiful and one who was never idle... But there was one problem. Sarai was barren.

And, people looked down on her.. - To be continued.

Celia :: 9:28 AM :: 2 Comments:

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