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Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father`s house, to the land that I will show you.
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A Call to Radical Separation
Commentators highlight that God's call to Abram was not a simple relocation. By commanding him to leave his 'country,' 'kindred,' and 'father's house,' God was calling for a complete break from his past life, culture, and the idolatry of his people. This radical separation was necessary to preserve true worship and demonstrates that following God sometimes requires leaving behind things we hold dear.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
19th Century
Anglican
Now the Lord had said unto Abram.—The Hebrew text reads, And Jehovah said unto Abram. This is not a new beginning; but ha…
Baptist
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…
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16th Century
Protestant
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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
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