Genesis 11:27–12:4

Terah’s Descendants

27 This is the genealogy of Terah: Terah begot uAbram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begot Lot. 28 And Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans. 29 Then Abram and Nahor took wives: the name of Abram’s wife was vSarai, 5and the name of Nahor’s wife, wMilcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah. 30 But xSarai was barren; she had no child.

31 And Terah ytook his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out with them from zUr of the Chaldeans to go to athe land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there. 32 So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.

Promises to Abram

12 Now the aLord had said to Abram:

“Get bout of your country,

From your family

And from your father’s house,

To a land that I will show you.

2 cI will make you a great nation;

dI will bless you

And make your name great;

eAnd you shall be a blessing.

3 fI will bless those who bless you,

And I will curse him who curses you;

And in gyou all the families of the earth shall be hblessed.”

4 So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.