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5 Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and athe people whom they had acquired in bHaran, and they cdeparted to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan.  
6 Abram apassed through the land to the place of Shechem, bas far as the terebinth tree of Moreh. cAnd the Canaanites were then in the land.  
7 aThen the Lord appeared to Abram and said, b“To your descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an caltar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.  
8 And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; there he built an altar to the Lord and acalled on the name of the Lord.  
9 So Abram journeyed, agoing on still toward the South.  

Abram in Egypt

10 Now there was aa famine in the land, and Abram bwent down to Egypt to dwell there, for the famine was csevere in the land.  
11 And it came to pass, when he was close to entering Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, “Indeed I know that you are aa woman of beautiful countenance.  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Genesis 12:7

Unto thy seed will I give this land—God was dealing with Abram not in his private and personal capacity merely, but with a view to high and important interests in future ages. That land his posterity was for centuries to inhabit as a peculiar people; the seeds of divine knowledge were to be sown there for the benefit of all mankind; and considered in its geographical situation, it was chosen in divine wisdom as the fittest of all lands to serve as the cradle of a divine revelation designed for the whole world.

and there builded he an altar unto the Lord—By this solemn act of devotion Abram made an open profession of his religion, established the worship of the true God, and declared his faith in the promise.




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Genesis 12:7:

Joshua 24:1
Judges 1:26
Isaiah 1:4
Galatians 3:16
Hebrews 11:8

 

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