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Genesis 15:18

In the Hot-one of Himself581 Yahweh has cut off582 אֶת-Raised-Father a cut-out-one583 to say, `To your seed I have given אֶת-Earth of This one, from the river of Dual-Strait until the Great River—the river Phrat,

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Hebrew בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֗וּא. In-the-Hot-one of Himself. Or, The Hot-one of Him. The pronoun he + the definite article the means a very specific person or thing. Translators default to the more ambiguous “that” which is not a relative pronoun at all. Who is “that one” other than “himself”? If not himself than we are left with an unidentified definite hot-one. The covenant is not merely a historical event between Raised-Father and Yahweh but a prophetic event (as with all of these) showing us the covenant he makes us in the Hot-one, our Hot-one (1 Thes. 5:5).