The Call of Abram

12 The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household(A) to the land(B) I will show you.(C)

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12 Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

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“I am the Lord your God,(A) who brought you out(B) of Egypt,(C) out of the land of slavery.(D)

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I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

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‘Leave your country and your people,’ God said, ‘and go to the land I will show you.’[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 7:3 Gen. 12:1

And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

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By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance,(A) obeyed and went,(B) even though he did not know where he was going.

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By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

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