We don't have Abraham yet, we have Abram - he will become Abraham later. But here we have the beginning of the story. Abraham is called out of his father's home and sent by God to a new land with the promise that he will be the father of a great nation and that his descendants will be a blessing to all people.
So, Abram goes and God shows him some land and promises it will be his. Then we get a little side story - a famine hits and Abram takes his wife and goes to Egypt - but he tells his wife to say that she's his sister so people don't kill him to get her. Well, Pharoah decides he wants her and gives Abram livestock and slaves for her - but when God sends sickness to his house he figures out what's going on and sends her back and tells Abram to get out of Egypt. This is one of those things the recurs in the story - things aren't going the wayAbram thinks they should, he tries to fix them and messes up a bit and God gets it back on track
So Abram gets back to Canaan and God makes a covenant with him - God promises that Abram will be the father of a great nation and that his descendents will have the land - but he also says that they will be exiles and persecuted for 400 years. Abram forgets that part later - but stay tuned.
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