And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.
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Gill's Exposition
And said unto him,.... Not the words in Gen 12:1 for they were said in Haran, these in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt there, and besides, these are different from them; no mention is here made of…
Barnes' Notes
And said unto him - How long this was said before he went is not recorded. Moses simply says that God had commanded him to go, Gen 12:1. Thy kindred - Thy relatives, or family connections. It seems…
Stephen is now at the bar before the great council of the nation, indicted for blasphemy: what the witnesses swore against him we had an account of in the foregoing chapter, that he spoke blasphemous…
Cambridge Bible
and said unto him It does not appear from the narrative in Genesis whether there had been some Divine communication which caused the first removal from Ur to Haran. We are only told (Gen 11:31) that…
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