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…

Thou shalt be a blessing. — More correctly, Be thou a blessing. The promises made to Abram are partly personal a…

There, you see, was the missionary character of the seed of Abraham, if they had but recognized it. God did not bless them for themselves alone, bu…

And I will make of you a great nation. Until now, Moses has related what Abram had been commanded to do; now he adds the promise of God to…

And I will make of you a great nation
In a literal sense, as the people of the Jews were that descended from him, and in a spi…

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…