THEOSISGenesis 23:12Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.
וַיִּשְׁתַּ֙חוּ֙ אַבְרָהָ֔ם לִפְנֵ֖י עַ֥ם הָאָֽרֶץ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Gen 19:1And the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of the city. And seeing them, he rose up and went to meet them: and worshipped prostrate to the ground.
- Gen 18:2And when he had lifted up his eyes, there appeared to him three men standing near to him: and as soon as he saw them, he ran to meet them from the door of his tent, and adored down to the ground.
- Gen 23:7Abraham rose up, and bowed down to the people of the land, to wit, the children of Heth: