Abraham and Sarah A promise to
bless the human family
Abraham lived in the city of Ur.
Wicked priests there wanted to
sacrifice him to their idols.
Abraham prayed, and the Lord saved
him.
Then the Lord commanded Abraham
and his wife Sarah to leave Ur and travel to a faraway land.
He promised to bless them on their
journey.
Abraham and Sarah trusted the Lord
and left Ur.
But they felt sad because they
couldn’t have children.
The Lord comforted them.
He promised that they would have a
child.
Abraham prayed to the Lord to
learn more about Him.
The Lord visited Abraham and
called Himself Jehovah.
Jehovah made a covenant with
Abraham.
He promised that Abraham would
have the priesthood.
He also promised that through
Abraham’s family, all the families of the earth would be
blessed.
As Abraham and Sarah traveled,
they needed to find food.
They tried to live in a land
called Canaan.
There was no food there, so they
had to go to Egypt.
But living in Egypt was dangerous
for them.
Abraham and Sarah left Egypt and
returned to live in Canaan.
They brought food and animals from
Egypt with them.
Canaan was part of the land the
Lord promised them.
The Lord also kept His promise
that Abraham would receive the priesthood.
One day Abraham and Sarah met a
righteous king named Melchizedek.
Abraham paid tithing to him.
Abraham received the priesthood
from Melchizedek.
This was the same priesthood that
the prophets Adam and Noah had received.
Abraham and Sarah were happy in
Canaan, but they still worried because they didn’t have a child.
They had to trust the Lord’s
promise that one day their family would grow and bless the whole
earth.