Genesis 13:18
So Abram removing his tent came and dwelt by the vale of Mambre, which is in Hebron: and he built there an altar to the Lord.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Movens igitur tabernaculum suum Abram, venit, et habitavit juxta convallem Mambre, quæ est in Hebron : ædificavitque ibi altare Domino.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἀποσκηνώσας Ἀβρὰμ ἐλθὼν κατῴκησεν παρὰ τὴν δρῦν τὴν Μαμβρήν, ἣ ἦν ἐν Χεβρών· καὶ ᾠκοδόμησεν ἐκεῖ θυσιαστήριον Κυρίῳ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֶּאֱהַ֣ל אַבְרָ֗ם וַיָּבֹ֛א וַיֵּ֛שֶׁב בְּאֵלֹנֵ֥י מַמְרֵ֖א אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּחֶבְר֑וֹן וַיִּֽבֶן שָׁ֥ם מִזְבֵּ֖חַ לַֽיהוָֽה
Haydock's commentary
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, chap. xiv. 13. (Menochius)
Hebron was on the hill above. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.