Genesis 11:31-12:3
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
31 Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot son of Haran and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.(A) 32 The days of Terah were two hundred five years, and Terah died in Haran.
The Call of Abram
12 Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.(B) 2 I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.(C) 3 I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”[a](D)
Footnotes
- 12.3 Or by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves
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