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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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582

Strong’s #3772, karat. To cut off. This is the standard word for covenant “making” and is based on the imagery of circumcision in which the foreskin is cut off, and those who are uncircumcised are cut off (Gen. 17:14). Remember this as, things get more interesting in Chapter 17.