So Abram departed, even as the Lord spake unto him, and Lot went with him, (and Abram was seventy and five years old, when he departed out of Haran)

Then Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they possessed, and the [a]souls that they had gotten in Haran, and they departed to go to the land of Canaan, and to the land of Canaan they came.

¶ So Abram [b]passed through the land unto the place of Shechem, and unto the [c]plain of Moreh (and the [d]Canaanite was then in the land)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 12:5 Meaning, as well servants as cattle.
  2. Genesis 12:6 He wandered to and fro in the land before he could find a settling place: thus God exerciseth the faith of his children.
  3. Genesis 12:6 Or, oak grove.
  4. Genesis 12:6 Which was a cruel and rebellious nation, by whom God kept his in continual exercise.

So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot(A) went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old(B) when he set out from Harran.(C) He took his wife Sarai,(D) his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated(E) and the people(F) they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan,(G) and they arrived there.

Abram traveled through the land(H) as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh(I) at Shechem.(J) At that time the Canaanites(K) were in the land.

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