Genesis 2:11

2:11 The name of the first is Pishon; it runs through ¹  the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

Genesis 25:18

25:18 His descendants ²  settled from Havilah to Shur, which runs next ³  to Egypt all the way ⁴  to Asshur. ⁵  They settled ⁶  away from all their relatives. ⁷ 

Genesis 25:1

The Death of Abraham

25:1 Abraham had taken ⁸  another ⁹  wife, named Keturah.

Genesis 15:7

15:7 The Lord said ¹⁰  to him, “I am the Lord ¹¹  who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans ¹²  to give you this land to possess.”

¹ tn Heb “it is that which goes around.”

² tn Heb “they”; the referent (Ishmael’s descendants) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Heb “which is by the face of,” or near the border. The territory ran along the border of Egypt.

⁴ tn Heb “as you go.”

⁵ sn The name Asshur refers here to a tribal area in the Sinai.

⁶ tn Heb “he fell.”

⁷ tn Heb “upon the face of all his brothers.” This last expression, obviously alluding to the earlier oracle about Ishmael (Gen 16:12), could mean that the descendants of Ishmael lived in hostility to others or that they lived in a territory that was opposite the lands of their relatives. While there is some ambiguity about the meaning, the line probably does give a hint of the Ishmaelite-Israelite conflicts to come.

⁸ tn Or “took.”

⁹ tn Heb “And Abraham added and took.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “And he said.”

¹¹ sn I am the Lord. The Lord initiates the covenant-making ceremony with a declaration of who he is and what he has done for Abram. The same form appears at the beginning of the covenant made at Sinai (see Exod 20:1).

¹² sn The phrase of the Chaldeans is a later editorial clarification for the readers, designating the location of Ur. From all evidence there would have been no Chaldeans in existence at this early date; they are known in the time of the neo-Babylonian empire in the first millennium b.c.