Walk in the Bible - Genesis 17
Genesis 17 Four or Five years (depending on which Torah commentator you ask) have passed since the end of Genesis 16, Abram’s now 90 years old, well past the age where he should be able to have a son, not to mention the fact that Sari’s actually a bit older than he is and is also at an age where she too, couldn’t have a child herself. GOD’s first words when he appears to Abram is to tell him that he is GOD Almighty "El Shaddai". Pretty much all of the Torah commentators agree that El Shaddai means "powerful enough to sustain any creature", that GOD has no need of anything else outside of HIMSELF to sustain HIMSELF. His next words to Abram, interestingly enough can be translated to "Walk before me and be whole" or "walk before me and be intact", which is a really intersting play on words considering what he’s about to ask Abram to do! He tells Abram that he’s going to make a covenant, a binding promise, between HIMSELF and Abram, un...