Deuteronomy 11:30

The champaign] i.e. the plain, RV 'Arabah': see on Deuteronomy 1:1.

Plains of Moreh] RV 'oaks of Moreh': see Genesis 12:6. The Samaritans claim that Moreh and Moriah (Genesis 22:2) are the same, and that the sacrifice of Isaac therefore took place on Mt. Gerizim. They also assert that Mt. Gerizim was the meeting-place of Abraham and Melchizedek (Genesis 14). The Gilgal mentioned here is not the Gilgal lying between the Jordan and Jericho (see Joshua 4:19), but another place of the same name near Shechem, in the centre of the country. The name means 'circle of (sacred) stones,' a 'cromlech.'