12^*The Lord said to Abram, “Leave your country, your relatives, and your father’s home, and go to a land that I am going to show you. ²I will give you many descendants, and they will become a great nation. I will bless you and make your name famous, so that you will be a blessing.

³^*I will bless those who bless you,

But I will curse those who curse you.

And through you I will bless all the nations.”^h

⁴When Abram was 75 years old, he started out from Haran, as the Lord had told him to do; and Lot went with him. ⁵Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the wealth and all the slaves they had acquired in Haran, and they started out for the land of Canaan.

When they arrived in Canaan, ⁶Abram travelled through the land until he came to the sacred tree of Moreh, the holy place at Shechem. (At that time the Canaanites were still living in the land.) ⁷^*The Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “This is the country that I am going to give to your descendants.” Then Abram built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

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Genesis 12:3: “I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

Footnotes

hAnd through … nations; or All the nations will ask me to bless them as I have blessed you.

Cross references

*12.1: Ac 7:2, 3; He 11:8
*12.3: Ga 3:8
*12.7: Ac 7:5; Ga 3:16