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Genesis 18–23
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Bible Central Chapter Guides
Daily Reading Plan
Monday
- Daily Verse: Genesis 18:1-2
- Video: Marianna Richardson, Three Holy Men Visit Abraham (Genesis 18)
- Scripture: Genesis 18
Tuesday
- Daily Verse: Genesis 19:1
- Video: Taylor Halverson, Lot and His Family (Genesis 19)
- Scripture: Genesis 19
Wednesday
- Daily Verse: Genesis 20:2
- Video: Jasmin Gimenez Rappleye, Why Did Abraham Lie About Sarah? (Genesis 20)
- Scripture: Genesis 20
Thursday
- Daily Verse: Genesis 21:17
- Video: John Hilton III, The Bible Story of Hagar (Genesis 21)
- Scripture: Genesis 21:1–21
Friday
- Daily Verse: Genesis 22:1
- Video: Lynne Hilton Wilson, The Abrahamic Sacrifice in Restored Scripture (Genesis 22)
- Scripture: Genesis 21:22–34
Saturday
- Daily Verse: Genesis 22:12
- Video: Casey Paul Griffiths, Why Did God Ask Abraham to Sacrifice Isaac? (Genesis 22)
- Scripture: Genesis 22
Sunday
- Daily Verse: Genesis 23:19-20
- Commentary: Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Old Testament Minute: Genesis, Genesis 23:17–20.
- Scripture: Genesis 23
Bibliography
Genesis 18
Stephen O. Smoot, “Abraham and the Stranger at Sodom and Gomorrah,” Public Square Magazine, August 5, 2021; originally presented at the 2021 FAIR Conference.
Genesis 19
RoseAnn Benson, “Reexamining Lot,” Religious Educator 14, no. 1 (2013): 59–81.
Stephen O. Smoot, “Abraham and the Stranger at Sodom and Gomorrah,” Public Square Magazine, August 5, 2021; originally presented at the 2021 FAIR Conference.
Genesis 20
Strathearn, Gaye, “The Wife/Sister Experience: Pharaoh’s Introduction to Jehovah,” in Sperry Symposium Classics: The Old Testament, ed. Paul Y. Hoskisson (Provo and Salt Lake City: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, and Deseret Book 2005), 100–116.
Pearl of Great Price Central, “Did Abraham lie About His Wife Sarai?” Book of Abraham Insight 5 (August 2, 2019).
Mackay, Thomas W. “Abraham in Egypt: A Collation of Evidence for the Case of the Missing Wife,” BYU Studies 10, no. 4 (Summer 1970): 429–451.
Genesis 21
Matthew L. Bowen, “’If Ye Will Hearken’: Lehi’s Rhetorical Wordplay on Ishmael in 2 Nephi 1:28–29 and Its Implications,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 25 (2017): 157–189.
Andrew C. Smith, “Hagar in LDS Scripture and Thought,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 8 (2014): 87–137.
Genesis 22
Book of Mormon Central, “How Abraham’s Sacrifice of Isaac Illuminates the Atonement (Jacob 4:5),” KnoWhy 412 (March 1, 2018).
Matthew L. Bowen, “’In the Mount of the Lord It Shall Be Seen’ and ‘Provided’: Theophany and Sacrifice as the Etiological Foundation of the Temple in Israelite and Latter-day Saint Tradition,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 5 (2013): 201–223.
Larry E. Dahl, “The Abrahamic Test,” in Sperry Symposium Classics: The Old Testament, ed. Paul Y. Hoskisson (Provo and Salt Lake City: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, and Deseret Book 2005), 83–99.
Blair G. Van Dyke, “Elements of Sacrifice in Abraham’s Time and Our Own,” Religious Educator 10, no. 1 (2009): 51–69.
Genesis 23
Louise Gardiner Durham, “Sarah,” in Encyclopedia of Mormonism, 4 vols., ed. Daniel H. Ludlow (New York: MacMillan Publishing, 1992), 3:1260.