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Creating Souls

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Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan.
Genesis 12:5 (NKJV)

The translators note the word “people” in Genesis 12:5 is not actually “people. ” Rather it means “souls” or “living beings,” which is a strange way to describe people.

But stranger yet is that the word “acquired” here does not mean “acquired.” The word is עָשָׂה (asah). It means to MAKE.

As in, “and God made,” which points us back to Genesis 1.

The Price of Souls

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Then the king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give the [a]people to me and take the possessions for yourself.”
Genesis 14:21 (NASB)

[a] Lit soul

The Hebrew language is a little on the nose . Earlier, the king of Sodom’s name is given: Bera, which means “Evil.”

Here, the Evil one makes an offer to Abram, who is the rescuer of the people: “if you give me the souls, I’ll let you keep the stuff.”

Abe declines the offer. He doesn’t want the stuff. And God will rescue the souls anyway.