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4 So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
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.  
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Genesis 12:6

The plain of Moreh - elon should be translated oak, not plain; the Septuagint translate ̔ , the lofty oak; and it is likely the place was remarkable for a grove of those trees, or for one of a stupendous height and bulk.

The Canaanite was then in the land - This is thought to be an interpolation, because it is supposed that these words must have been written after the Canaanites were expelled from the land by the Israelites under Joshua; but this by no means follows. All that Moses states is simply that, at the time in which Abram passed through Sichem, the land was inhabited by the descendants of Canaan, which was a perfectly possible case, and involves neither a contradiction nor absurdity. There is no rule of criticism by which these words can be produced as an evidence of interpolation or incorrectness in the statement of the sacred historian. See this mentioned again, Genesis 13:7 (note).




Other Adam Clarke entries containing Genesis 12:6:

Genesis 13:7
Genesis 13:18
Genesis 18:4
Joshua 24:1

 

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