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Genesis 12:6-7
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Genesis 12:6-7
New English Translation
6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the oak tree[a] of Moreh[b] at Shechem.[c] (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)[d] 7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants[e] I will give this land.” So Abram[f] built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
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- Genesis 12:6 tn Or “terebinth.”
- Genesis 12:6 sn The Hebrew word Moreh (מוֹרֶה, moreh) means “teacher.” It may well be that the place of this great oak tree was a Canaanite shrine where instruction took place.
- Genesis 12:6 tn Heb “as far as the place of Shechem, as far as the oak of Moreh.”
- Genesis 12:6 tn The disjunctive clause gives important information parenthetical in nature—the promised land was occupied by Canaanites.
- Genesis 12:7 tn The same Hebrew term זֶרַע (zeraʿ) may mean “seed” (for planting), “offspring” (occasionally of animals, but usually of people), or “descendants” depending on the context.
- Genesis 12:7 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Abram) has been supplied in the translation for clarification.
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