The Bible - Lesson 4 - Abraham / Part 3
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Watch and Discuss:

As you watch, take notes and be prepared to answer the following questions after you watch the video:

  1. What colours were the camels you saw in the video clip?
  2. Where was Isaac born?
  3. What did Sarah do after she said the baby's name?
  4. Why do you think Hagar and Ishmael had to leave?
  5. What was Ishmael doing with a stone?
  6. What did Hagar and Ishmael take with them when they left?
  7. How did Abraham feel when Hagar and Ishmael left?

Listening Practice:

Watch the video clip again and fill in the missing words from the dropdown box:


One Year After the Lord Visited Abraham and Sarah

Abraham: How is she? How is she?

Sarah: Oh. Oh. Oh! A . Isaac.

Abraham: As he .

Servant: Your .

Hagar: Eat your food, Ishmael.

Abraham: Ishmael. Oh, good.

Sarah? What's the matter?

Sarah: That woman thinks her boy is going to what rightfully belongs to Isaac.

Abraham: What do you mean?

Sarah: Who is to be the first of all our tribe, Abraham, the first of all those stars in the heavens? Our son or hers?

Abraham: Sarah, I...

Sarah: Abraham, Abraham. You decide, or let God .

Hagar: Be .

Narrator: by God that they will , Abraham sends Hagar and Ishmael into the .

Abraham: Good-bye, Ishmael. Oh, my boy, my boy. When you up, God will you with many children.

Matching exercise: Match the words on the left with the definitions on the right:

  1. assure
  2. brave
  3. decide
  4. inherit
  5. rightful
  6. star
  7. survive
  8. wilderness
  • a. having a fair or legal claim to something, lawful
  • b. to receive after one dies
  • c. to promise that something is as you say, to guarantee
  • d. unafraid of danger
  • e. to continue to live or exist under hard conditions
  • f. land in its natural state, esp. a large area unspoiled by humans
  • g. to reach a conclusion, to make up one's mind
  • h. a bright, hot ball of gas in the sky seen at night as a dot of light

Completion exercise: Complete these sentences with words from the exercise above: (Hint: you may need to change the form of the word.)

  1. As his father's only relative, he has a claim to his dead father's property.
  2. He his grandfather's watch.
  3. The closest to us is our sun.
  4. I you that I'm telling you the truth.
  5. This tree has for many years.
  6. areas are protected in many of our provincial and national parks.
  7. Firefighters are in saving people from burning buildings.
  8. We've to go on vacation in August this year.

Comprehension and discussion questions: Discuss these questions in your group or with a partner.

  1. Why was the birth of Isaac such a special event in Abraham's life?
  2. Why did Sarah laugh when she said the baby's name?
  3. How was the birth of Isaac different from the birth of Ishmael?
  4. How do you think Hagar felt about the birth of Isaac?
  5. Why did Abraham send Hagar and Ishmael away?
  6. What did Abraham say about Ishmael's future?
  7. How do you think Ishmael felt as he and his mother went away?
  8. Abraham is the father of the Arab nations through Ishmael, and the Israelis through Isaac. Describe the relationship between the Israelis and the Arabs today. What is at the historical source of their conflict?
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