The Lord said to Abram … Lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward; for all the land which you see I will give to you and to your descendants for ever. (Genesis 13:14–15) Section of the Medeba Map (Place names translated from the Greek) To the north the winterbound, snow-covered mountains of the Lebanon; to the south the semiarid Negeb; to
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