Genesis 12
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Genesis 12:1-8

1Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.1

2I will make you into a great nation,and I will bless you;I will make your name great,so that you will be a blessing.3I will bless those who bless youand curse those who curse you;and all the families of the earthwill be blessed through you.2”

4So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran. 5And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and people they had acquired in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan.

When they came to the land of Canaan, 6Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the Oak3 of Moreh at Shechem. And at that time the Canaanites were in the land.

7Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.4” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

8From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and he called on the name of the LORD.

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Notes

  1. 1. Genesis 12:1 Cited in Acts 7:3 ↩
  2. 2. Genesis 12:3 See Galatians 3:8 ↩
  3. 3. Genesis 12:6 Or Terebinth or Great Tree ↩
  4. 4. Genesis 12:7 Cited in Galatians 3:16 ↩

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