OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 13:18

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Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to the LORD.

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Verse 18. Vale, or grove of oaks, where there was a famous one which was called the oak of Mambre, either from the neighbouring city, or from a man of that name. Calmet. 14:13. Menochius.—Hebron was on the hill above. Calmet.

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