Sarah. Sarah is a Biblical matriarch and prophetess, a major figure in Abrahamic religions. While some discrepancies exist in how she is portrayed by the different faiths, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all depict her character similarly, as that of a pious woman, renowned for her hospitality and beauty, the wife of Abraham, and the mother of Isaac. Sarah first appears in Bereshit, or the Book of Genesis, while the Midrash and Aggadah provide some additional commentary on her life and role within Judaism and its ancestral form, Yahwism. She is born Sarai in Ur Kaśdim, or Ur of the Chaldees, believed to have been in present-day Turkey, Syria, or Iraq, in 1803 BCE, or 1,958 years following Creation, according to the Hebrew calendar, the daughter of Terah, an idolater who worshiped the sun and high-ranking servant of Nimrod, the king of Shinar, or Mesopotamia, but not of his wife, Amathlai. Her name is a feminine form of sar, meaning chieftain or prince. Through Terah, she would've been the great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandchild of Noah, still alive, living in the Mountains of Ararat, and over nine centuries old at the time of her birth. No details are given as to her life or her religious beliefs before Abraham's return to Ur Kaśdim to thwart Nimrod's efforts to proclaim himself a god, in 1763 BCE, or 1,998 years following Creation. It is known she wed Abraham, then Abram, sometime between the ages of forty and five and that, in 1758 BCE, or 2,003 years following Creation, following her husband's public humiliation of Nimrod, she, along with her father Terah, her orphaned nephew Lot, her manservant Eliezer, and some three hundred others left Ur Kaśdim for Canaan, the present-day Levant, to save Abraham from a plot by Nimrod to destroy him, commanded to do so by Yahweh. En route to Canaan, the group stopped in Harran, in present-day Turkey, settling there for some twenty years, until Yahweh urged them to move on and so, they left Terah behind, to live out his days, and traveled through Shechem and Bethel, both cities in the present-day West Bank, and, when a famine strikes the region, to Mizraim, present-day Egypt. While in Mizraim, Sarah's beauty attracts the attention of Pharaoh and Abraham, fearing the Egyptians would kill him if they knew Sarah were married to him, introduces himself as her brother and so, Pharaoh bestows upon Abraham great wealth, in the form of livestock and slaves, including Hagar, so that he may take Sarah as his concubine, to live in his palace with him. For Pharaoh's transgression against Abraham, though unintentional on his part, he and members of his household, save for Sarah, are stricken with plague, and, of his own deduction, realizes that Abraham is her husband, not only her brother. Despite Abraham's willful deceit of Pharaoh, Pharaoh does not punish Abraham nor does he require he return the wealth they were given in exchange for Sarah but he does order them to leave Mizraim. After leaving Mizraim, Lot splits from their group amicably, eventually going to settle in Sodom, over disputes related to the livestock they acquired from Pharaoh. They returned to Canaan, and a decade passed and still, she and Abraham had no children and so, Sarah offered Hagar, her slavewoman, as a concubine to her husband so that he may have a child. Hagar fell pregnant with Ishmael and, during her pregnancy, Sarah and Hagar's relationship deteriorated rapidly, with Sarah striking her and Hagar fleeing into the desert to avoid her, returning only at the urging of angels. It was then told to Abraham by Yahweh that Sarah would give to him a son, an idea that Sarah, then ninety years old, laughed at, but, as prophesied, she fell pregnant with Isaac and she nursed him herself. She would ultimately demand that Abraham send Hagar and Ishmael away and so, Abraham banished them and sent them into the desert. Sometime after the birth of Ishmael but before the birth of Isaac, Sarah and Abraham travel to Gerar, as described in Genesis 20, where events took place which mirrored those of Mizraim, in which a king, this time Abimelech, took an interest in Sarah for her beauty and, as he had done in Mizraim, Abraham presented himself as her brother instead of her husband and so, believing her unmarried Abimelech took her into her house as Pharaoh had though, this time, Yahweh intervened before he touched Sarah, through dreams and plague. Abimelech confronted Abraham, angry that his lie had caused him to invoke the wrath of a god, but, also like Pharaoh, bestowed great wealth upon Abraham for his transgression, as well as giving him 1,000 pieces of silver.