Genesis 12:1–9

The Call of Abram

12The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household^d to the land^e I will show you.^f

²“I will make you into a great nation,^g

and I will bless you;^h

I will make your name great,

and you will be a blessing.^ai

³I will bless those who bless you,

and whoever curses you I will curse;^j

and all peoples on earth

will be blessed through you.^k”^b

⁴So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot^l went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old^m when he set out from Harran.^{n 5}He took his wife Sarai,^o his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated^p and the people^q they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan,^r and they arrived there.

⁶Abram traveled through the land^s as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh^t at Shechem.^u At that time the Canaanites^v were in the land. ⁷The Lord appeared to Abram^w and said, “To your offspring^c I will give this land.^x”^y So he built an altar there to the Lord,^z who had appeared to him.

⁸From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel^a and pitched his tent,^b with Bethel on the west and Ai^c on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.^d

⁹Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.^e