Genesis 12:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

and. Note the Figure of speech Polysyndeton. See App-6, emph. each class of property. All these pictured on the Monuments in Egypt.

sheep, &c. No horses in Egypt till 18th Dynasty.

Genesis 12:16

16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.