:* Lech-Lecha, on Genesis 12 – 17: Abraham, Sarah, Lot, covenant, Hagar and Ishmael, circumcision

* Assembly begins on The Parting of Lot and Abraham, a mosaic in the nave arcade of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore.

* The Parting of Lot and Abraham, mosaic in the nave arcade, Church of Santa Maria Maggiore ( Rome ), is made.

The first public memorial to Abraham Lincoln in Washington D. C. was a statue by Lot Flannery erected in front of the District of Columbia City Hall in 1868, three years after Lincoln's assassination.

He said that God appeared to Abraham in Mesopotamia, and directed him to leave the Chaldeans — whereas most Rabbinical commentators see Terah as being the one who directed the family to leave Ur Kasdim from: “ Terah took his son Abram, his daughter-in-law Sarai ( his son Abram ’ s wife ), and his grandson Lot ( his son Haran ’ s child ) and left Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan .”

According to Genesis, the Moabites were related to the Israelites, with both peoples tracing their descent back to a common ancestor, Terah, who is named as the father of Abraham and Haran, and Haran being the father of Lot.

Genesis tells that Abraham and Lot travelled together in the Land of Canaan, but that after awhile they decided to part ways.

Lot decided to move to the east of the Jordan, while Abraham stayed in Canaan.

Biblical Haran was where Terah, his son Abram ( Abraham ), his grandson Lot, and Abram's wife Sarai settled while in route to Canaan, coming from Ur of the Chaldees ( Genesis 11: 26 – 32 ).

In, Abraham, after rescuing Lot, met with Melchizedek.

Abraham's nephew is said to have been the prophet Lot, who was one of the other people who migrated with Abraham out of their community.

Abraham then left his people for good, with his believing nephew Lot and his wife, and all were directed towards the blessed land.

The commentators further stated that, secondly, the fire referred to the ' fire of persecution ', from which Abraham was saved, as he left his people after this with his wife Sarah and his nephew Lot.

The Talmud identifies Sarai with Iscah, daughter of Abraham's deceased brother Haran ( Genesis 11: 29 ), so that Sarah turns out to be the niece of Abraham and the sister of Lot and Milcah.

A traditional Orthodox icon depicts Lot, the nephew of Abraham, watering the trees.

Mamre being the name of one of the three Amorite chiefs who joined forces with those of Abraham in pursuit of Chedorlaomer to save Lot.

-The people of Nuh ( Noah ), ' Ad, and Thamud, the people of Ibrahim ( Abraham ), the dwellers comrades of Madyan ( Midian ) and the cities overthrown the people to whom Lūt ( Lot ) preached, to them came their Messengers with clear proofs.

According to Islamic tradition, Lot lived in Ur and was the son of Haran and nephew of Abraham.

According to the Quran, Lot was a prophet and a nephew of Abraham.

A group of angels visited Abraham as guests and gave him glad tidings of a son " endowed with wisdom "; they told him that they had been sent by God to the " guilty people " of Lot to destroy themwith " a shower of stones of clay " and deliver Lot and those who believed in him, except his wife saying " she is of those who lag behind ".

There is an interpretation in Bereshit Rabbah ( 43: 2 ), cited by Rashi, that Eliezer went alone with Abraham to rescue Lot, with the reference to " his initiates " stated to be 318 in number ( Lech-Lecha 14: 14 ) being the numerical value of Eliezer's name in Hebrew, interpreted in tractate Nedarim ( 32a ) as Abraham not wishing to rely on a miracle by taking only one individual.

In his version, the three princes command all persons to bake bricks for the Tower of Babel, however twelve, including several of Joktan's own sons, as well as Abraham and Lot, refuse the orders.

In Oxford, Ernst Boris Chain and Edward Abraham worked out how to isolate and concentrate penicillin.

Abraham Kuyper notes some " disagreeable aspects " to her character — that she should not have agreed to take Vashti's place, that she refrained from saving her nation until her own life was threatened, and that she carries out bloodthirsty vengeance.

Followers of Hutton were known as Plutonists because they believed that some rocks were formed by vulcanism, which is the deposition of lava from volcanoes, as opposed to the Neptunists, led by Abraham Werner, who believed that all rocks had settled out of a large ocean whose level gradually dropped over time.

Toward the end of his life he wrote a letter for general circulation pointing out that Abel, Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Moses and David were all keepers of sheep or cattle and therefore that a learned education should not be seen as a necessary qualification for ministry.

His new theories placed him into opposition with the then-popular Neptunist theories of Abraham Gottlob Werner, that all rocks had precipitated out of a single enormous flood.

In contrast to Abraham — who illuminates the world with knowledge of God and earns the respect of the inhabitants of the land of Canaan — and Isaac — who continues his father's teachings and also lives in relative harmony with his neighbors — Jacob experiences many personal struggles both in the land and out of it-including the hatred of his brother, Esau ; the deception of his father-in-law, Laban ; the rape of his daughter, Dinah ; the death of his favorite wife, Rachel ; and the sale of his son, Joseph.

Historians have criticized Davis for being a much less effective war leader than his Union counterpart Abraham Lincoln, which they attribute to Davis being overbearing, controlling, and overly meddlesome, as well as being out of touch with public opinion, and lacking support from a political party ( since the Confederacy had no political parties ).

And He is called Angel and Apostle ; for He declares whatever we ought to know, and is sent forth to declare whatever is revealed ; as our Lord Himself says, “ He that heareth Me, heareth Him that sent Me .” From the writings of Moses also this will be manifest ; for thus it is written in them, “ And the Angel of God spoke to Moses, in a flame of fire out of the bush, and said, I am that I am, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of thy fathers ; go down into Egypt, and bring forth My people .” And if you wish to learn what follows, you can do so from the same writings ; for it is impossible to relate the whole here.

In an impressive performance that brought out a very different and hitherto unrevealed aspect of his acting he starred as the ancient Patriarch Abraham, both in his young as well as old age, for a special one-episode only, in the 1995 TV series Bible Ki Kahaniyan, an epic series in Doordarshan India.

They point out that Noah did not pray to God on behalf of those about to be destroyed, as Abraham prayed for the wicked of Sodom and Gomorrah.

* May 28 – Montana is organized as a United States territory out of parts of Washington Territory and Dakota Territory, and is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.

Richard Elliott Friedman has argued that the story may have originally had Abraham carrying out the sacrifice of Isaac, but that later repugnance at the idea of a human sacrifice led a redactor to add the lines in which a ram is substituted for Isaac.

She points out that in one of his early Bible images, " Abraham and the Three Angels ", the angels sit and chat over a glass of wine " as if they have just dropped by for dinner ".

They were to be driven out of the land by the descendants of Abraham (;, ; ; ; ; ).

The USDA was created by Abraham Lincoln in order to help out the United States economy.

At that point, however, " demand came to an unexpected halt ... No more copies were produced for many years, and if, as is claimed, Abraham Lincoln greeted Stowe in 1862 as ' the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war ,' the work had effectively been out of print for many years.

Hitchcock often told journalists of an idea he had about Cary Grant hiding out from the villains inside Abraham Lincoln's nose and being given away when he sneezes.

His father was in debt, so he hired Davy out to Abraham Wilson to settle a debt of $ 36.

* Moriarty appears as a holographic character in the Futurama episode " Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch ", where he comes out of the Holoshed of the Nimbus with Attila the Hun, Jack The Ripper, and Evil ( Abraham ) Lincoln.

Col. Abraham Wood sent several famous expeditions out from here in the following years to explore points to the west, as far as the Appalachian Mountains.

Missoula County became a part of Montana Territory when the territory was organized out of the existing Idaho Territory by Act of Congress and signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 26, 1864.

In a 1993 episode of The Simpsons titled " Lady Bouvier's Lover ", after Grampa cries out, " Good night, Mrs. Bouvier, wherever you are ," the blue-haired lawyer announces himself in charge of Jimmy Durante's estate and therefore puts a halt to Abraham Simpson's " unauthorized imitation " of Durante.

The tract of land on which the original town of Waterloo was laid out was purchased in 1818 by George Forquer later an Illinois State Senator, 5th Secretary of State of Illinois ( 1825 – 1828 ), 5th Illinois Attorney General ( 1829 – 1832 ) and most famously an early political enemy of Abraham Lincoln.

Daniel Kaufman, who laid out the village of Boiling Springs in 1845, purchased 48 acres from his father, Abraham, in 1843.

When the Spanish Civil War broke out, he traveled to Spain to join the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in fighting against Francisco Franco.