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What is the significance of the 'many days that Avraham sojourned in the Land of the Pelishtim'?

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Rashi: It means that following the twenty-five years that he spent in Chevron (from the age of 75 to 99), 1 he spent twenty-six years in Be'er-Sheva (from the age of 99 to a 125, twelve years before the Akeidah) - after which he returned to Chevron.


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Moshav Zekenim: It was more than 25, for he was in Chevron when he conquered the four kings! (He holds that Avraham went to Eretz Kena'an temporarily before Lech Lecha.) However, he himself said that Avraham was 74 when he conquered them! (Refer to 12:4:1:1*.) If so, what is difficult?

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