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Genesis 12:6

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Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time, Canaanites were in the land.

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Genesis 12:6 in other translations

And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Shechem, unto the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

Genesis 12:6 · American Standard Version

Genesis 12:6 in context

  1. 4So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
  2. 5Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they went to go into the land of Canaan. They entered into the land of Canaan.
  3. 6Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time, Canaanites were in the land.
  4. 7Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.”
    He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.
  5. 8He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on Yahweh’s name.