The light of Elohim begins to shine in the midst of a very dark world. The 70 nations are now gathered with Nimrod (and his princes) at the helm. They are leading all of ha-a-dam's seed into ways they should not go. It is in this context that the light of Yehovah is raised for all to see in the life of Abram who, we will see in future lessons, warns Nimrod to turn from his wicked ways.

Here is a blog I wrote to go with this lesson.
http://weareisrael.org/2015/07/05/genealogy-of-shem-abram/

Here is the pdf file called "Age Chart" that I shared with my class in this lesson.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4289827/Age_Chart.pdf

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