Genesis Chapter 15 verse 3 Holy Bible
And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
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And Abram said, You have given me no child, and a servant in my house will get the heritage.
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And Abram said, Lo, to me thou hast given no seed, and behold, a son of my house will be mine heir.
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And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
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And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and lo, one born in my house is my heir.
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Abram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir."
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And Abram saith, `Lo, to me Thou hast not given seed, and lo, a domestic doth heir me.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house (literally, the son of my house, i.e. Eliezer) is mine heir. The language of the patriarch discovers three things: (1) a natural desire to have a child of his own; (2) a struggle to hold on by the promise in face of almost insuperable difficulties; and (3) an obvious unwillingness to part with the hope that the promise, however seemingly impossible, would eventually be realized. This unwillingness it was which caused him, as it were, so pathetically to call the Divine attention to his childless condition; in response to which he received an assurance that must have thrilled his anxious heart with joy.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) One born in my house.--This is a mistake. Those born in Abram's house were his servants (Genesis 14:14). The Hebrew is, the son of my house, my house-son, not born of me, but the chief of the house next to myself, and its representative. Eliezer was probably born at Damascus.
