For many generations the children of Abraham remained an obscure people of the hilly back country engaged in incessant bickerings with the Philistines and with the kindred tribes about them, the Moabites, the Midianites, and so forth.

• 连续好几代，亚伯拉罕的后裔一直是边远山区一个默默无闻的民族，整日和非利士人以及周围与他们有着血缘关系的部落，像摩押人、 米甸人等等，争吵不休。