THE CALL OF ABRAM

12 The Lord said to Abram:

Go from your land,

your relatives,

and your father’s house

to the land that I will show you.f

2 I will make you into a great nation,g

I will bless you,h

I will make your name great,

and you will be a blessing.i

3 I will bless those who bless you,

I will curse anyone who treats you with contempt,j

and all the peoples on earth

will be blessedB through you.C,k

4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.l 5 He took his wife, Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated, and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan, 6 Abram passed through the land to the site of Shechem,m at the oak of Moreh. (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)