Editing Givat HaMoreh (section)

===Hebrew Bible===
The "hill of Moreh" is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible three times, in {{bibleverse|Genesis|12:6}}, {{bibleverse|Deuteronomy|11:30}} and [[Judges 7:1]].

The [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] phrase ''elon moreh'' ({{bibleverse|Genesis|12:6a}}) has been subject to various [[English translations of the bible|translations]] in English versions of the Bible. Translators who consider ''elon moreh'' to be the name of a locality, render it as "the plain(s) of Moreh", e.g. [[King James Version]] and the [[Geneva Bible]], but translators who consider the term to refer to a sacred tree or grove often render it as "[[terebinth]]" (''[[Pistacia terebinthus]]''), a tree which is notable for its size and age in dry landscapes of the region. For example, the [[New International Version]] translation of Genesis 12:6a reads:
:"[[Abraham|Abram]] traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at [[Shechem]]"
and the [[New King James Version]] translates Deuteronomy 11:30 as:
:"Are they ([[Mount Gerizim]] and [[Mount Ebal]]) not on the other side of the [[Jordan River|Jordan]], toward the setting sun, in the land of the [[Canaanites]] who dwell in the plain opposite [[Gilgal]], beside the terebinth trees of Moreh?"

"Moreh" is often understood to mean "teacher" or "oracle", referring to the owner of the tree or the land on which it grew.

Genesis 35:4:
:"And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which [were] in their hand, and [all their] earrings which [were] in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which [was] by Shechem."
A neutral reading discovers that the tree, oak or not, grew above buried idols and dedicated treasure, the Hebrews remembered, and they associated the burial of these things with the [[patriarchal age]].

[[John Wesley]] noted that the plains of Moreh was one of the first places that Abram came to in Canaan, so when Moses sent the incoming [[Israelites]] to this place "to hear the blessing and the curse, they were minded of the promise made to Abram in that very place".<ref>[http://wesley.nnu.edu/john-wesley/john-wesleys-notes-on-the-bible/notes-on-the-fifth-book-of-moses-called-deuteronomy/#Chapter%2BXI John Wesley's Notes on the Bible] on Deuteronomy 11:30, accessed 25 November 2015</ref>