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Genesis 20:15

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20:15 Then Abimelech said, “Look, my land is before you; live wherever you please.” 1 

Genesis 34:10

Context
34:10 You may live 2  among us, and the land will be open to you. 3  Live in it, travel freely in it, 4  and acquire property in it.”

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[20:15]  1 tn Heb “In the [place that is] good in your eyes live!”

[34:10]  2 tn The imperfect verbal form has a permissive nuance here.

[34:10]  3 tn Heb “before you.”

[34:10]  4 tn The verb seems to carry the basic meaning “travel about freely,” although the substantival participial form refers to a trader (see E. A. Speiser, “The Verb sh£r in Genesis and Early Hebrew Movements,” BASOR 164 [1961]: 23-28); cf. NIV, NRSV “trade in it.”



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