Mahalalel, Jared, Enoch, Methusaleh, Lamech, and Noah. The
period from Adam to Noah is known as the "generation of the
flood" (_dor ha-mabbul_).

(3) These are Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah, Eber, Peleg, Reu,
Serug, Nahor, Terah, and Abraham. Noah's good deeds were
sufficient only to save himself and family, while Abraham's
were sufficient to sustain the whole world.

(4) These trials may be reckoned as follows: (1) his
migration, Gen. XII, 12; (2) the famine in Canaan, XII, 10;
(3) the seizing of Sarah by Pharaoh, XII, 15; (4) the battle
with the four kings, XIV; (5) his marriage with Hagar because
of Sarah's sterility, XVI, 2; (6) the circumcision, XVII, 10;
(7) the seizing of Sarah by Abimelech, king of Gerar, XX, 2;
(8) the banishment of Hagar, XXI, 10; (9) the banishment of
Ishmael, XXI, 10; and (10) God's command to sacrifice Isaac,
XXII, 2. See _Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer_, chapter 24, and
Friedlander, G., _Rabbinic philosophy and Ethics_ (London,
1912), p. 75, n. 4.

(5) For God. Some interpreters explain this, however, as "the
love of God for Abraham."

(6) That they escaped the ten plagues with which the Egyptians
were afflicted.

(7) Legend says that at the passage of the Red Sea the ten
miracles wrought were as follows: (1) the waters divided; (2)
the waters were like a tent, or a vault; (3) the sea-bed was