Genesis 12:1

The Call of Abram

1 The LORD had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.

Genesis 12:1 in Other Translations

KJV
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
ESV
1 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.
NLT
1 The LORD had said to Abram, “Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father’s family, and go to the land that I will show you.
MSG
1 God told Abram: "Leave your country, your family, and your father's home for a land that I will show you.
CSB
1 The Lord said to Abram: Go out from your land, your relatives, and your father's house to the land that I will show you.

Genesis 12:1 In-Context

1 The LORD had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.
2 “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”
4 So Abram went, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran.
5 He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.

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Cross References 3

  • 1. Genesis 20:13; Genesis 24:4,27,40
  • 2. S Genesis 10:19
  • 3. Genesis 15:7; Genesis 26:2; Joshua 24:3; Acts 7:3*; Hebrews 11:8
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