getting any younger. Abram was called at the age of seventy-five, and his wife was sixty-five, with no prospect of an heir, except perhaps Lot, Abram’s nephew, and he has now departed (13:12–13). And although Abram rescues him from Mesopotamian armies, Lot returns to Sodom (Genesis 14; 19). Now—perhaps a decade after Abram’s initial call38—there has been no progress in fulfillment. If the promise of receiving land seems a bit of a stretch, the prospect of descendants and becoming a great nation