1. The Lord said to Abram, "Leave your land, your family, and your father’s household for the land that I will show you.
2. I will make of you a great nation and will bless you. I will make your name respected, and you will be a blessing.
3. I will bless those who bless you,those who curse you I will curse;all the families of the earthwill be blessed because of you."
4. Abram left just as the Lord told him, and Lot went with him. Now Abram was 75 years old when he left Haran.
5. Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all of their possessions, and those who became members of their household in Haran; and they set out for the land of Canaan. When they arrived in Canaan,
6. Abram traveled through the land as far as the sacred place at Shechem, at the oak of Moreh. The Canaanites lived in the land at that time.