6Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.


In Context

3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."

4 So Abram left, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Haran.

5 He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.

6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.

7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So he built an altar there to the Lord , who had appeared to him.

8 From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord .

Genesis 12:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:6And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite [was] then in the land.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

12:6Abram passed through the country into the place of Sichem, as far as the noble vale: now the Chanaanite was at that time in the land.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:6And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Shechem, unto the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:6And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

12:6And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Shechem, unto the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:6And Abram passed through the land to the place of Sichem, to the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:6Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

12:6And Abram passeth over into the land, unto the place Shechem, unto the oak of Moreh; and the Canaanite is then in the land.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:6And Abram passed through the land to the place of Sichem, to the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.