Genesis 12:6-8

New King James Version

⁶Abram ^(A)passed through the land to the place of Shechem, ^(B)as far as ^[a]the terebinth tree of Moreh. ^(C)And the Canaanites were then in the land.

⁷^(D)Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, ^(E)“To your ^[b]descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an ^(F)altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him. ⁸And 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 ^(G)called on the name of the Lord.

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Footnotes

Genesis 12:6 Heb. Alon Moreh
Genesis 12:7 Lit. seed

Genesis 12:6-8

New International Version

⁶Abram traveled through the land^(A) as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh^(B) at Shechem.^(C) At that time the Canaanites^(D) were in the land. ⁷The Lord appeared to Abram^(E) and said, “To your offspring^[a] I will give this land.^(F)”^(G) So he built an altar there to the Lord,^(H) who had appeared to him.

⁸From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel^(I) and pitched his tent,^(J) with Bethel on the west and Ai^(K) on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.^(L)