Genesis 12:6 “Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the Oak of Moreh…”

Genesis 12:6

Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the Oak of Moreh at Shechem. And at that time the Canaanites were in the land.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

So Abram passed through the land vnto the place of Shechem, and vnto the plaine of Moreh (and the Canaanite was then in ye land)

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

And Abram passeth over into the land, unto the place Shechem, unto the oak of Moreh; and the Canaanite [is] then in the land.

Bible in Basic English

And Abram went through the land till he came to Shechem, to the holy tree of Moreh. At that time, the Canaanites were still living in the land.

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Cross references

“passed”

Hebrews 11:9

Hebrews 11:9 · BSB

By faith he dwelt in the promised land as a stranger in a foreign country. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.

“Sichem”

Genesis 35:4 Genesis 33:18 Genesis 34:2 Joshua 20:7 Joshua 24:32 Judges 9:1

Genesis 35:4 · BSB

So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.

Genesis 33:18 · BSB

After Jacob had come from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped just outside the city.

Genesis 34:2 · BSB

When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.

Joshua 20:7 · BSB

So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

Joshua 24:32 · BSB

And the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up out of Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the plot of land that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver. So…

Judges 9:1 · BSB

Now Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to his mother’s brothers at Shechem and said to them and to all the clan of his mother,

“Shechem”

John 4:5

John 4:5 · BSB

So He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

“Sychar”

Acts 7:16

Acts 7:16 · BSB

Their bones were carried back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a price he paid in silver.

“Moreh”

Deuteronomy 11:30 Judges 7:1

Deuteronomy 11:30 · BSB

Are not these mountains across the Jordan, west of the road toward the sunset, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah opposite Gilgal near the Oak of Moreh?

Judges 7:1 · BSB

Early in the morning Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the men with him camped beside the spring of Harod. And the camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh.

“Canaanite”

Genesis 13:7 Genesis 15:18–21 Genesis 10:15 Genesis 10:18 Genesis 10:19

Genesis 13:7 · BSB

And there was discord between the herdsmen of Abram and the herdsmen of Lot. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were also living in the land.

Genesis 15:18–21 · BSB

On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—

Genesis 10:15 · BSB

And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,

Genesis 10:18 · BSB

the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans were scattered,

Genesis 10:19 · BSB

and the borders of Canaan extended from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and people they had acquired in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,

7Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring. ” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

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