J-M's History Corner

When I reblogged Leave Me A Link and I’ll Share Your Page!! on WordPress, I promised to share a post from anyone who left me their site link.  I shared 3 in Links ; today, I share one of Jesse's Rational Christian Discernment posts: Why Did God Call For The Extermination Of The Canaanite People?  https://rationalchristiandiscernment.blogspot.com/2019/07/why-did-god-call-for-extermination-of.html   Well worth a read.

Here is the Restored English Translation (RET) of the 13th chapter of Beresheet ( Genesis ).  As usual, it contains the Hebrew names , with a glossary of them at the end.  At the very end is a list of the places where the Aleph/Tavs occur, as I no longer include them in the main text . CHAPTER 13 1 And Avram went up out of Mitsrayim, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the Negev. 2 And Avram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold. 3 And he went on his journeys from the Negev even to Beyt-El, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beyt-El and Ai, 4 to the place of the altar which he made there at the first. And there Avram called on the name of YEHOVAH. 5 And also to Lot, who went with Avram, there was flocks and herds and tents. 6 And the land was not able to bear them, that they might live together; for their substance was great, so that they could not live together. 7 And there was strife...