Abram next removed to a mount east of Beth-El, "and there he builded an altar unto Jehovah, and called upon the name of Jehovah." Chap. xii. 8. On the occurrence of a famine he went down to Egypt, whence he returned to Beth-El, "unto the place of the altar which he had made there at the first, and there Abram called on the name of Jehovah." xiii. 4. These passages indicate his custom of offering typical sacrifices, and calling on the name of Jehovah at the place set apart, for the time being, to that purpose; and from the nature of the case, and its analogy to other recorded instances (as Gen. xxxii. 13) of such offerings to Melach Jehovah, there is no ground to suppose that the same official Person was not the immediate object of homage in the present instance. So of the ensuing narrative, Gen. xiii. 14-18: "And Jehovah said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward and southward and eastward and westward; for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever." "Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, and built there an altar unto Jehovah." In chapter xv. we read that "The _Word_ of (rather _who is_) Jehovah _came_ unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram; I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward. And Abram said, Adonai Jehovah, what wilt thou give me, &c. And behold, the _Word_ (who is) Jehovah _came_ unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; ... and _He_ brought him forth abroad and said, Look now toward heaven and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them; and He said unto him, So shall thy seed be. And he believed in Jehovah, and He counted it to him for righteousness. And he said unto Him, Adonai Jehovah, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?" In this narrative the Personal Word appears to be designated by a term equivalent to Logos, as applied in the first chapter of John, namely, _Dabar_, importing the same as the Chaldee term _Memra_, frequently inserted with the same personal reference by the Chaldee paraphrasts. The Dabar (who is) Jehovah _came_ unto Abram, saying, ... He brought him forth abroad, and said, &c. These are personal acts, not to be affirmed of an audible voice. They imply the local presence of the speaker, whom Abram addresses as Adonai Jehovah. Throughout the chapter he is the speaker. Abram's faith in him as Jehovah is unto righteousness. In this, as in some instances hereafter to be noticed, the sense and construction of the passage seem to require that the term translated _Word_ should be considered a personal designation, having the same relation to the term Jehovah as Adon, Adonai, and Melach.