Now [in Haran] the LORD had said to Abram, “Go away from your country, And from your relatives And from your father’s house, To the land which I will show you.
GOD’S CALL AND PROMISE TO ABRAM
GOD’S CALL AND PROMISE TO ABRAM
Tag: Chosen Family
OUTLINE OF THE BOOK GENESIS
OUTLINE OF THE BOOK GENESIS
The name is the Greek word for “beginning,” and was selected by the translators of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek. This version was known as the Septuagint (frequently indicated by LXX), because it was said the translators numbered seventy men. It was made for the Jews of “the Dispersion” dwelling in Egypt and elsewhere, who had become unfamiliar with the language of their fathers.