Genesis 12:1-9

1The Lord said to Abram, “Leave your land, your relatives, and your father’s home. Go to the land that I will show you.

2I will make you a great nation, I will bless you. I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.

3I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you, I will curse. Through you every family on earth will be blessed.”

4So Abram left, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was 75 years old when he left Haran.

5Abram set out for Canaan. He took along his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions they had accumulated and the servants they had acquired in Haran.

6They arrived in Canaan, and Abram traveled through the land to the oak tree belonging to Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.

7Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “I’m going to give this land to your descendants.” So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

8He moved on to the hills east of Bethel, and he put up his tent—with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. He also built an altar to the Lord there and worshiped the Lord.

9Abram kept moving toward the Negev.