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…

Their substance that they had gathered. —Not cattle only, but wealth of every kind. As we have no data about the migratio…

Fierce and powerful nations possessed the country; it did not seem a very likely place to be the inheritance of a peace-loving man like Abraham. Go…

The souls that they had gotten in Haran. Souls signify male and female servants. This is the first mention of servitude, from which it app…

And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son,
and so forth.] The son of Haran his brother, not against t…

Abram believed that the blessing of the Almighty would compensate for all he might lose or leave behind, supply all his needs, and answer and excee…