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God's Call to Abram

12 (A)The Lord said to Abram, “Leave your country, your relatives, and your father's home, and go to a land that I am going to show you. I will give you many descendants, and they will become a great nation. I will bless you and make your name famous, so that you will be a blessing.

(B)I will bless those who bless you,
But I will curse those who curse you.
And through you I will bless all the nations.”[a]

When Abram was seventy-five years old, he started out from Haran, as the Lord had told him to do; and Lot went with him. Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the wealth and all the slaves they had acquired in Haran, and they started out for the land of Canaan.

When they arrived in Canaan,

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 12:3 And through … nations; or All the nations will ask me to bless them as I have blessed you.

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