Genesis 12: 1-6
The Call of Abram
12Now the Lord said to Abram, ‘Go from your country and your kindred
and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. 2I will
make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name
great, so that you will be a blessing. 3I will bless those who bless
you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the
families of the earth shall be blessed.’*
4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him.
Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. 5Abram
took his wife Sarai and his brother’s son Lot, and all the
possessions that they had gathered, and the persons whom they had
acquired in Haran; and they set forth to go to the land of Canaan.
When they had come to the land of Canaan, 6Abram passed through the
land to the place at Shechem, to the oak* of Moreh. At that time the
Canaanites were in the land.
