your protection if anything went wrong. In Abraham’s case he was being asked to leave the most sophisticated and affluent part of the Middle East, Ur of the Chaldees, in modern terms, southern Iraq, for the unknown ‘land that I will show you.’ It was a momentous step for Abraham personally, but Genesis sees his call as a giant leap for mankind. In its exposition we read of two cycles of human failure. The first man Adam failed and that led eventually to the flood. The only righteous survivor of the