Genesis 12:1-9

1Now 1the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country, And from your relatives And from your father’s house, To the land which I will show you;2And 2I will make you into a great nation, And 3I will bless you, And make your name great; And you shall 4be a blessing;3And 5I will bless those who bless you, And the one who 6curses you I will 7curse. 8And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”

4So Abram went away as the Lord had spoken to him; and 9Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. 5Abram took his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot, and all their 10possessions which they had accumulated, and 11the 12people which they had acquired in Haran, and they 13set out for the land of Canaan; 14so they came to the land of Canaan. 6Abram passed through the land as far as the site of 15Shechem, to the 16oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanites were in the land at that time. 7And the Lord 17appeared to Abram and said, “18To your 19descendants I will give this land.” So he built 20an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him. 8Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent with 21Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the Lord and 22called upon the name of the Lord. 9Then Abram journeyed on, continuing toward 23the 24Negev.