Variety: Genesis 17v1
Book
Genesis
Chapter
17
Start Verse
1
End Verse
1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, ‘I am God Almighty (“El Shaddai”); walk before me faithfully and be blameless. (Genesis 17:1)
In the book of Exodus and elsewhere, God is El Shaddai, God of the mountain or God Almighty [Genesis 17:1; Exodus 6:3; Job 8:5]…. In the original Hebrew, the phrase simply reads “God of the mountain.” In Hebrew, the word shaddai has more than one meaning. It is also the word for “breast”…. Therefore, El Shaddai is not only as mighty, grand, and awesome as a mountain but as powerfully nurturing, gentle, and loving as a mother’s gift, shared from her bosom. Behind her bosom, lie her heart and lungs—the power of life and breath. God is like a mother. El Shaddai is God of the mountain and God who is like a mother’s bosom, mighty and intimately nurturing at once
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