After the flood had ended it was up to Noah and his sons: Shem, Japeth, and Ham (weird name), to restore humanity and start again from scratch. Fortunately all of Noah's sons were accompanied by their wives, which would enable them to reproduce and restore humanity as we know it, a very hard task for six people.
After years of reproducing finally comes Abram, a very noble, and religious human being. This caused God to notice him and communicate with him. The Lord presented Abram with a very difficult task, he said: "Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing. And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed"(Gen 12). Do you think Abram felt a little pressured?
Abram is a lucky man, as you may have noticed he has a smoking hot wife!
But, for some reason God does not want anyone to know this so makes Abram disguise Sarai by telling everyone she's his sister. Since everyone think they're just brother and sister, they start hitting on Sarai and they would end up cursed and had to pay Abram with cattle amongst other things. She was so beautiful that even princes saw her and invited her to their palace, and because of that: "The LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife".( Gen. 12: 17). I really don't think its fair with all the guys that tried to hit on Sarai because they really don't have a clue that Sarai was already married and therefore I believe it was unfair that they were punished, while they had no bad intentions.
Sarai loved Abram very much and would give him virtually everything he wanted. Abram wanted a child and Sarai wasn't able to conceive. Sarai was so disappointed with herself that she told the maid to have Abram's child. Which she has. Sarai for some reason (don't ask me why)is mad because the child Abram had was not from her, but from her maid. I can understand why Sarai would be mad at this, but it is very foolish of her to be mad after saying: "The LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai".(Gen.16 2). I mean, women are so foolish they even contradict THEMSELVES!! Poor men, will we ever understand?
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