Genesis 11:27–12:8

27  And these are the generations of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot. 28  And Haran died before the face of his father Terah in the land of his nativity at Ur of the Chaldeans. 29  And Abram and Nahor took wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, a daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah. 30  And Sarai was barren: she had no child. 31  And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth together out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to go into the land of Canaan, and came as far as Haran, and dwelt there. 32  And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.

Chapter 12

1  And Jehovah had said to Abram, Go out of thy land, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, to the land that I will shew thee. 2  And I will make of thee a great nation, and bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing. 3  And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee; and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

4  And Abram departed as Jehovah had said to him. And Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran. 5  And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had acquired, and the souls that they had obtained in Haran, and they went out to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

6  And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. 7  And Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land. And there he built an altar to Jehovah who had appeared to him. 8  And he removed thence towards the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel toward the west, and Ai toward the east; and there he built an altar to Jehovah, and called on the name of Jehovah.