A landmark beside Shechem, and the first place in the land Abram stopped: Genesis 12:6, already on these pages, brings him 'as far as the place of Shechem, to the great tree of Moreh', where he is told the land will be his offspring's. Deuteronomy 11:30 uses the same landmark, in the PLURAL, to locate Gerizim and Ebal — so the mountains of blessing and curse are fixed by reference to the spot where the promise was first made. ⚠ The species is unknown and the shelf disagrees about it. Hebrew elon is a large tree, probably a terebinth or an oak; the KJV prints 'the plains of Moreh', the Geneva 1599 'the grove of Moreh', the ASV 'the oaks of Moreh', the NIV 'the great trees of Moreh'. ★ The NAME is likelier to be significant than the botany: moreh is built on the root yarah, to throw and hence to point out or teach, so it means 'teacher' or 'oracle-giver' — plausibly a divination tree, of the kind Judges 9:37 still knows near Shechem. The same root gives yoreh, the early rain of Deuteronomy 11:14, the rain that is 'thrown down'. ⚠ The Douay-Rheims has no tree here at all, following the Vulgate to a valley that stretches far — a Latin divergence, not a Hebrew one. Coordinates are Shechem's and approximate; no tree can be located.