1. שׁכם (shekem) Shekem, “the upper part of the back.” Here it is the name of a person, the owner of this place, where a to…

Now the Lord had said unto Abram.—The Hebrew text reads, And Jehovah said unto Abram. This is not a new beginning; but ha…

It was God's intention to keep his truth and his pure worship alive in the world by committing it to the charge of one man, and the nation that sho…

Now the Lord had said unto Abram. So that an absurd division of these chapters does not trouble the readers, they should connect this sent…

Now the Lord had said to Abram
In Ur of the Chaldees, before he came and dwelt in Charran, as seems evident from ([R…

God chose Abram and singled him out from among his fellow-idolaters, so that he might reserve a people for himself, among whom his true worship mig…