Genesis 20:1
And Abraham moved from there to the land of the Negeb, and lived between Kadesh and Shur, and stayed in Gerar.
From there Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb and lived between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.
And Abraham removed thence to the southern country, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.
Footnotes
696 | Left⇒Down, Right⇒Up South, we learned, is “Right”, and now we see it also means “upward”. At this point you can be thinking about the Kingdom of Israel dividing into two—the “North” and the “South” a.k.a. “Left” and “Right”, upward, and downward. The upside of Right and downside of Left is illustrated in the staging of the leaders next to Ezra over his right hand and from the left hand, “Ezra the Counter is standing-firm over a tower of wood, which they have made to the Word. And they are standing-firm beside-him Gift-of-Yah, and Report, and Yah-Answers, and Flame-of-Yah, and My-Portion-is-Yah, and Work-of-Yah, over his right hand. And from his left Ransom-of-Yah, and Who-Which-God, and My-King-Yah, and Enriched, and Plotting-Judge, Yah-Remembers, Allied.” Nehemiah 8:4 literal Perhaps the reason the vernacular “left hand” doesn’t exist in Hebrew but only “left” is that the left hand gets cut-off… |
697 | Strong’s #6946: Kadesh. Holy, set-apart |