Genesis 12:6

And Abram passed along throughout the land, as far as the place of Shechem as far as the Teacher’s Terebinth, the Canaanite being then in the land.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

5And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, with all the goods that they had gathered and the souls that they had gained in Haran,—and they came forth to go towards the land of Canaan, and came in to the land of Canaan.

7And Yahweh appeared unto Abram, and said: To thy seed, will I give this land,—And he built there an altar, unto Yahweh who appeared unto him.

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Cross References

Genesis 10:18and the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite,—and after-wards, were spread abroad the families of the Canaanite.

Genesis 15:18In that day, did Yahweh solemnise with Abram a covenant, saying,—To thy seed, have I given this land, from the river of Egypt as far as the great river—the river Euphrates:

Genesis 34:2And Shechem, son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the land, saw her,—so he took her, and lay with her, and humbled her.

Genesis 35:4So they gave unto Jacob all the gods of the alien which were in their hand, and the earrings which were in their ears,—and Jacob hid them under the oak, which was by Shechem.

Joshua 20:7So then they set apart Kadesh in Galilee, in the hill country of Naphtali, and Shechem, in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba, the same, is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah.

Judges 7:1Then Jerubbaal, the same, is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and encamped by the fountain of Harod,—and, the camp of Midian, was on the north of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the vale.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 12:5-6

Arrival of Abram in Canaan. ( b. c. 1920.) 4 So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came. Here is, I. Abraham's removal out of his country, out of Ur first and afterwards out… Read the whole commentary →

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