1. דבר dābār — “a word, a thing;” the word being the sign of the thing.
2. אדני 'ǎdonāy — “Adonai, the…

Take me an heifer ... — This form of making a covenant was probably the usual form in Babylonia, and thus Abram received …

Here is a lesson for us. Perhaps you have some of these unclean birds coming down upon your sacrifice right now. That raven that you did not lock u…

Take me an heifer of three years old. Some, instead of a heifer of three years old, translate the passage as ‘three heifers’ and, in each …

And he said unto him, take me an heifer of three years old ,
&c.] This, with what follows, is the sign by which Abra…

Assurance was given to Abram of the land of Canaan for an inheritance. God never promises more than he is able to perform, as men often do. Abram d…