KJV ORIGINAL
And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.
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✦ MADE SIMPLE
Abram traveled through the land and came to the place called Shechem, to the oak tree of Moreh. The Canaanites were living in the land at that time.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
This verse shows Abram arriving in the promised land and finding that other people (the Canaanites) were already living there.
📚 Historical Context
This occurs after God called Abram to leave his homeland and go to a land God would show him. Shechem was an important city in the central hill country of what would become Israel. The mention that 'the Canaanite was then in the land' indicates this was written later, when the Canaanites were no longer the dominant people in the region.
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