of reconciliation, for which we have been seeking. We experience blessing from Israel and we find our own blessing there.” Read this way, the unilateral, extraordinary promise of God to Abram is an open-ended, abiding announcement of potentiality: The blessing that you nations seek can always be found here if you will take action to find it. For their part, Abram and his descendants (especially the tenth-century community that first received the Yahwist’s version of the Pentateuch) are challenged