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More Than Just Servants
Commentators explain that "the souls that they had gotten in Haran" refers not only to servants but likely also to proselytes. Jewish tradition, cited by scholars like Gill, holds that Abram and Sarai were actively converting people to the faith. This shows that from the very beginning, Abram's calling involved being a blessing to others by bringing them into the knowledge of the one true God.
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Albert Barnes
On Genesis 12:1–9
18th Century
Theologian
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…
Charles Ellicott
On Genesis 12:5
19th Century
Bishop
Their substance that they had gathered. —Not cattle only, but wealth of every kind. As we have no data about the migratio…
Charles Spurgeon
On Genesis 12:5–6
19th Century
Preacher
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…
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John Calvin
On Genesis 12:5
16th Century
Theologian
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…
John Gill
On Genesis 12:5
17th Century
Pastor
And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son,
and so forth.] The son of Haran his brother, not against t…
Matthew Henry
On Genesis 12:4–5
17th Century
Minister
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…