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Genesis 15:18

In the Hot-one of Himself581 Yahweh has cut off582 אֶת-Raised-Father an eating-compact583 to say, `To your seed I have given אֶת-Earth of This one, from the river of Dual-Siege until the Great River—the river Phrat,

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Genesis 15:18

Hebrew ביום ההוא. In-the-Day of Himself. Or, The Day of Him. The pronoun he + the definite article the means a very specific person or thing. Translators often chose the more ambiguous “that” which is not a relative pronoun. Who is “that one” other than “himself”? If not himself than we are left with an unidentified day.