Walk in the Bible - Genesis 18
Walk in the Bible - Genesis 18 This chapter pick up three days after Abraham was circumcised. Although the chapter itself doesn't say as much, pretty much all of the Torah scholars believe this is when this happened, as kind of a "get well" visit as this is when the circumcision would have been the most painful. A lot of Bible translations say that Abraham was sitting by the "Terebinths" or the "Oaks" of Mamre. Mamre was both the name of a city in Palestine and the name of a person. We know it's a person because he's mentioned back in Genesis 14:13 as Mamre the Amorite and Abraham was shown to be living in that same location as well! He's shown sitting in the door of his tent on the fourth hour of the day, now according to Daat Zkenim, this is when people ate lunch, typically the biggest meal of the day. The fourth hour of the day would be between 10-11 as the day started right at daybreak, and the first hour would fall roughly ...