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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.
2
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.
3
I will bless those who bless you, and him who curses you I will curse; and by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves."
4
So Abram went, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
5
And Abram took Sar'ai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions which they had gathered, and the persons that they had gotten in Haran; and they set forth to go to the land of Canaan. When they had come to the land of Canaan,
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