“Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.”
The exhortation 'Look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the quarry from which you were dug; look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you' calls Israel to remember covenant origins and God's faithfulness in establishing the people. The images of rock and quarry suggest both solid foundation and the extraction from ordinary material—Israel's formation from nothing through divine initiative. Reference to Abraham and Sarah evokes the covenant promise and its miraculous fulfillment despite Sarah's barrenness. Genealogical memory becomes comfort theology.
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