Illuminations
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Footnotes
See Bernard F. Batto, “Red Sea or Reed Sea?” BAR 10:04.
Abram does not become Abraham until Genesis 17:4, 5 when God makes a covenant with Abram and marks the new relationship by a change of name. God says: “No longer shall your name be Abram (the exalted father), but your name shall now be Abraham.” Abraham, is here taken to mean father of a multitude of nations.
This Midrash is of course based on the Hebrew word order. This Midrash does not “work” in English translations that do not follow the Hebrew word order.