Genesis 12:1-9
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12And aYahweh said to Abram, “1Go forth from your land,And from your kinAnd from your father’s house,To the land which I will show you;
2And aI will make you a great nation,And bI will bless you,And make your name great;And so 1,cyou shall be a blessing;3And aI will bless those who bless you,And the one who 1curses you I will 2curse.bAnd in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”4So Abram went forth as Yahweh had spoken to him; and aLot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. 5So Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their apossessions which they had accumulated, and bthe 1persons which they had acquired in Haran, and they departed to go forth to the land of Canaan; cthus they came to the land of Canaan. 6And Abram passed through the land as far as the site of aShechem, to the 1oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanite was then in the land. 7Then Yahweh aappeared to Abram and said, “bTo your seed I will give this land.” So he built can altar there to Yahweh who had appeared to him. 8Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with aBethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to Yahweh and bcalled upon the name of Yahweh. 9And Abram journeyed on, continuing toward athe 1Negev.