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Abraham moved his family from their ancestral neighborhood to the land of Canaan.

The folks around there called him the "EEV-ree" ... loosely translated as "the guy from

over there", or "the one who came across".

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The ancient Hebrews had 12 tribes, and each tribe was named after a son of Jacob, from The Bible.

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