Genesis 12:5

Overview - Genesis 12
God calls Abram, and blesses him with a promise of Christ.
He departs with Lot from Haran, and comes to Canaan.
He journeys through Canaan,
which is promised to him in a vision.
10 He is driven by famine into Egypt.
11 Fear makes him feign his wife to be his sister.
14 Pharaoh, having taken her from him, by plagues is compelled to restore her.
18 He reproves Abram, whom he dismisses.
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Genesis 12:5  (King James Version)
And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
 


the souls
Genesis 14:14 Genesis 14:21 *marg:
46:5-26

in
11:31

and into
10:19 Acts 7:4 ; Hebrews 11:8 Hebrews 11:9

Canaan
So called from Canaan the son of Ham, lies between the Mediterranean sea on the west, the wilderness of Paran, Idumea, and Egypt on the south, the mountains of Arabia on the east, and the mountains of Lebanon and Phoenicia on the north. Its length, from Dan to Beersheba, is about 200 miles, and its breadth, from the Mediterranean sea to its eastern borders, about 90.