⁶ Abram ^(A)passed through the land to the place of Shechem, ^(B)as far as ^[a]the terebinth tree of Moreh. ^(C)And the Canaanites were then in the land.

²¹ For they gave them ^(A)Shechem with its common-land in the mountains of Ephraim (a city of refuge for the slayer), ^(B)Gezer with its common-land,

²⁵ So Joshua ^(A)made^[a] a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance ^(B)in Shechem.

Abimelech’s Conspiracy

9 Then Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem, to ^(A)his mother’s brothers, and spoke with them and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,