God affirms His covenant,
• changes ABRAM's name to ABRAHAM;
• commands the Egypt custom of puberty-circumcision (as witnessed by ABRAM in Egypt, c.2089 BC) as the covenant-sign of the Promised Land for each boychild from the eighth day after birth; and
• SARAH's name is changed (Gen.17).
The Lord JESUS (Jn.8:56) accompanied by two angels visits Abraham (Gen.18) –

Abraham intercedes for mercy on these Amorite cities where LOT his nephew lives in the plain of of Siddim south of the Dead/Salt Sea. (Gen.18:20-33).
God destroys Sodom and Gomorrah, but rescues LOT and his daughters. (Gen.19).
ABRAHAM moves to Gerar and lies to its king about SARAH (Gen.20).

ISAAC is born to ABRAHAM, at age 100 (Gen.21:5), and to SARAH, at age 90.

ABRAHAM sends HAGAR and ISHMAEL away from Beersheba, and makes a covenant with ABI-MELECH of Gerar (Gen.21)

ABRAHAM takes teenage ISAAC (about 15) from Beersheba to the mountains of Moriah, near Salem, to offer him in human-sacrifice (Gen.22:2).

SARAH dies, aged 127 (Gen.23) and is buried in the cave of Machpela at Hebron. (see 1968 AD )
Sumerian empire weakens under Amorite attacks.

TERAH (ABRAHAM's father, ISAAC's grandfather) would now have died without mention, if the Jewish Massoretic text of Genesis (our Bible) was correct. (See: Table 1)

ISAAC age 40 marries REBEKAH (Gen.24,25:20).
ABRAHAM marries KETURAH and fathers six more sons (Gen.25).

In Sumer – Ur (ABRAHAM's birth-city) is captured and plundered by the Elamites.

REBEKAH gives birth to JACOB and ESAU (Gen.25:26).

AMENEMHAT I establishes his rule over Egypt and begins their Twelfth Dynasty.

ABRAHAM dies, age 175 (Gen.25:7).
ISAAC settles in Gerar and then Beersheba because of famine (Gen.26).

SESOSTRIS I (SENUSRET/SENWOSRET) becomes pharaoh of all Egypt.

ESAU marries two Hittite wives (unbelievers) to the grief of his parents (Gen.26:34).

(H)EBER, ancestor of the Hebrews dies.

The arid period of severe periodic famines, which began from c.2180, now ends.

ISHMAEL dies, age 137, leaving 12 sons and their Arab descendants. (Gen.25:12-18).

In Egypt – The 12th Dynasty of begins.

AMENEMHAT II becomes pharaoh of Egypt.

JACOB is sent by his parents to marry a daughter of his mother's brother, LABAN, for religious reasons (Gen.28:1-2).
God meets with him at Bethel, and he falls in love with RACHEL at Haran.
ESAU marries ISHMAEL's daughter (a believer) to impress his parents (Gen.28,29).

JACOB marries LEAH, and RACHEL (but cannot yet take her as wife, he must work another 7 years).
LEAH's son, REUBEN, born within the year.

Birth of LEVI, third son of JACOB and LEAH.

RACHEL gives birth to JOSEPH her first-born.

JACOB flees from Haran with his family and flocks (Gen.31:41).
Depressed after hearing of ESAU's threat, he wrestles with the LORD and his name is changed to ISRAEL (Gen.32).
JACOB buys land and settles at Shechem (Gen.33).
LEVI and SIMEON massacre all the males of Shechem without warning, loot the city and take the women and children (Gen.34).
JACOB moves to Bethel in reaction.
JACOB moves to Mamre near Hebron to see his father ISAAC, but RACHEL dies en route, giving birth to BENJAMIN (Gen.35).

JOSEPH, age 17, is sold by his brothers, and resold to POTIPHAR in Egypt.

JOSEPH, age 30, becomes vizier to pharaoh AMENEMHAT II, and marries ASENATH, daughter of POTIPHERA, the priest of On (Heliopolis/Annu/Iunu) (Gen.41).

Drought begins throughout North Africa and the Middle East.
THE NILE DOES NOT RISE FOR SEVEN YEARS!

SENUSRET II (SESOSTRIS/SENWOSRET) son of AMENEMHAT II rules Egypt.

Spring: after another winter of no rain. God confirms His Abrahamic-covenant as Jacob sets out to migrate to Egypt (Gen.46:2-4).
Abib 15: JACOB and his family (with their Canaanite wives and servants) arrive in Egypt and settle in Goshen. This is 430 years to the day before the Exodus (Exodus 12:40, Galatians 3:17).

Pharaoh AMENEMHAT II dies and is buried under his brick pyramid at Dahshur.

SENUSRET II, who promoted JOSEPH, dies and is buried at Lahun in the Fayyum, his son SENUSRET III rules Egypt.
The famine continues –

(Quirke & Spencer "British Museum Book of Ancient Egypt", 1992:39-40).

In Egypt -Month 8, Day 16 (Egyptian): helical rising of the star Sirius begins the Sothic cycle of 1460 years.

The Great Famine ends with the Egyptian administration restructured over three regions, and the people grouped into cities, under the vizier JOSEPH (Gen.47:20-26).

JACOB dies aged 147, is embalmed in Egypt, and buried in family tomb at 'Hebron' after a great ceremonial funeral in Canaan with the Egyptian nobles and Government leaders attending (Gen.50:7). (See: embalming practice in the Twelfth Dynasty)

In Egypt – SENUSRET III dies.

AMENEMHAT III becomes pharaoh.

A period of exceptionally high Nile floods begins, continuing until c.1780.

In Sippar, Akkad, Mesopotamia – An Old Babylonian loan document (clay tablet left) shows a profit-making loan-industry run by the temple of Shamash.
It reads as follows:

Sealed by 5 Witnesses.
Dated 8th year of Apil-Sin, i.e. 1823 BC).

AMENEMHAT III dies, AMENEMHAT IV becomes pharaoh.

JOSEPH dies and is embalmed in Egypt aged 110, but is not buried (Gen.50:26).

AMENEMHAT IV, who knew JOSEPH, dies, Queen SOBEKNEFERU reigns as pharaoh.

King ZIMRI-LIM (wife – Queen SHIBTU bore him twins) builds a remarkable palace at Mari to which potentates of the East travel to marvel at its splendour.

HAMMURABI rules Babylon and publishes his famous Code.

In Egypt – Hyksos rule ('rulers of foreign lands') begins, arising from the immigrants of the Great Famine.
Egyptian Thirteenth Dynasty collapses.

Hittite civilization in Anatolia begins spreading southward toward Syria.

Minoan island Thera north of Crete explodes (Caphtor=Crete, origin of the Philistines, Am.9:7), causing huge tidal wave and helping the collapse of Minoan civilization.

In Germany – The bronze age sun-disk (Nebra disk) is made, reflecting the midsummer and midwinter solstices (82° separation), the Pleiades constellation (agricultural marker) and the solar-boat.

The Hittites sack Babylon.

Egypt ejects the Hyksos (mainly Semitic) after bloody fighting, and residual hostility destroys the remaining Egyptian favour toward JOSEPH's people (Israel).
Egyptian animosity begins to grow toward their Hebrews.

The 18th Dynasty of Egypt begins.

MOSES is born. He is nursed by his mother, JOCHABED, at palace expense, and at puberty ("when the child grew up") he is adopted and named, probably by head-strong princess MAATKARE HATSHEPSUT-KHENMETAMUN (daughter of Pharaoh THUTMOSE I and Queen AHMOSE, i.e. 100% royal) (Exodus 2:1-10).
The Princesses' personal adoption of a Hebrew baby was a defiance of her father's public policy.
This character accords well with what we know of HATSHEPSUT.