Genesis 12:1-9 ▼

1 The LORD said to Abram, |Leave your land, your relatives, and your father's home. Go to the land that I will show you.

2 I will make you a great nation, I will bless you. I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.

3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you, I will curse. Through you every family on earth will be blessed.|

4 So Abram left, as the LORD had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was 75 years old when he left Haran.

5 Abram set out for Canaan. He took along his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions they had accumulated and the servants they had acquired in Haran.

6 They arrived in Canaan, and Abram traveled through the land to the oak tree belonging to Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.

7 Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, |I'm going to give this land to your descendants.| So he built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

8 He moved on to the hills east of Bethel, and he put up his tent-with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. He also built an altar to the LORD there and worshiped the LORD.

9 Abram kept moving toward the Negev.