Shared Word Translation
Genesis 12
The Call and Blessing of Abram
Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your land, your kindred, and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. And 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. I will bless those who bless you, and the one who treats you lightly I will treat lightly; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
So Abram went, as the LORD had spoken to him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all the possessions that they had gathered, and the persons 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 passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him. From there he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD. And Abram journeyed on by stages toward the Negeb.