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Abraham & Yahweh

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Footnotes

Moriah here represents a vision; the word reflects a popular etymology based on the root r’h, to see. This root appears also in Genesis 22:4, 8, and 14. Thus, “to the land of Moriah [seeing]” is parallel to “the land that I will show you” in Genesis 12:1.

Endnotes

Inerrancy, ed. Norman Geisler (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1980), appendix, pp. 493–501.