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Genesis 15:7-8

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15:7 The Lord said 1  to him, “I am the Lord 2  who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans 3  to give you this land to possess.” 15:8 But 4  Abram 5  said, “O sovereign Lord, 6  by what 7  can I know that I am to possess it?”

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[15:7]  1 tn Heb “And he said.”

[15:7]  2 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).

[15:7]  3 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.

[15:8]  4 tn Here the vav carries adversative force and is translated “but.”

[15:8]  5 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Abram) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[15:8]  6 tn See note on the phrase “sovereign Lord” in 15:2.

[15:8]  7 tn Or “how.”



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