(A)I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and (B)in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”[a]

So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from (C)Haran. And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan, Abram (D)passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to (E)the oak[b] of (F)Moreh. At that time (G)the Canaanites were in the land.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 12:3 Or by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves
  2. Genesis 12:6 Or terebinth

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