Genesis 11:31-12:9

New International Version

³¹ Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot^(A) son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law^(B) Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans^(C) to go to Canaan.^(D) But when they came to Harran,^(E) they settled there.

³² Terah^(F) lived 205 years, and he died in Harran.

The Call of Abram

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

⁴ So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot^(O) went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old^(P) when he set out from Harran.^{(Q) 5} He took his wife Sarai,^(R) his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated^(S) and the people^(T) they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan,^(U) and they arrived there.

⁶ Abram traveled through the land^(V) as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh^(W) at Shechem.^(X) At that time the Canaanites^(Y) were in the land. ⁷ The Lord appeared to Abram^(Z) and said, “To your offspring^[c] I will give this land.^(AA)”^(AB) So he built an altar there to the Lord,^(AC) who had appeared to him.

⁸ From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel^(AD) and pitched his tent,^(AE) with Bethel on the west and Ai^(AF) on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.^(AG)

⁹ Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.^(AH)