1 The Lord said to Abram: Go forth from your land, your relatives, and from your father’s house to a land that I will show you.
2 I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you. All the families of the earth will find blessing in you.
4 Abram went as the Lord directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
5 Abram took his wife Sarai, his brother’s son Lot, all the possessions that they had accumulated, and the persons they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,