Add parallel Print Page Options

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]

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Genesis 12:6 tn Or “terebinth.”
  2. 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.
  3. Genesis 12:6 tn Heb “as far as the place of Shechem, as far as the oak of Moreh.”
  4. Genesis 12:6 tn The disjunctive clause gives important information parenthetical in nature—the promised land was occupied by Canaanites.

Abram traveled through the land(A) as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh(B) at Shechem.(C) At that time the Canaanites(D) were in the land.

Read full chapter