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In Old Testament tradition, Abraham was the forefather of the Hebrew people, as well as of the Arabs and other Semitic peoples. He worshipped the God of the Hebrews, although the Book of Genesis does not specifically attribute monotheism to him. A later tradition is that Abraham was the first to recognise that there is only one God. His God promised him that his descendants would occupy the Promised Land - the land belonging to the Canaanites. The Book of Genesis says that he travelled from Ur in Mesopotamia to the land of the Canaanites, where he settled. He visited a pharaoh in Egypt, and told him that Sarah, his wife, was really his sister, believing that the pharaoh would kill him to have sex with Sarah if he knew they were married. He also visited a king of the Philistines, although we now know that the Philistines never arrived on the Levant until many centuries after the time attributed to Abraham. Once again, he told the king that his now elderly wife was his sister and forthe same reason.

There are many historical errors in the story of Abraham, simply because he did not really exist. Scholars find that many of the places and events associated with Abraham did not yet exist at that time, or could not have happened during the time attributed to Abraham. Even his astounding lifespan has now been shown to have been derived from numerology, using a formula based on the magic number 17.

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