The Call of Abram
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Now the a LORD had said to Abram:
Get b out of your country,
From your family
And from your father's house,
To a land that I will show you.
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c I will make you a great nation;
d I will bless you
And make your name great;
e And you shall be a blessing.
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f I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And in g you all the families of the earth shall be h blessed."
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So Abram departed as the LORD had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
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Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and i the people whom they had acquired j in Haran, and they k departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan.
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Abram l passed through the land to the place of Shechem, m as far as the terebinth tree of Moreh. n And the Canaanites were then in the land.
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o Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, p "To your descendants I will give this land." And there he built an q altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
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And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; there he built an altar to the LORD and r called on the name of the LORD.
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So Abram journeyed, s going on still toward the South.
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Cross References
Genesis 15:7
Then He said to him, "I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it.
Acts 7:2
And he said, "Brethren and fathers, listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran.
Acts 7:3
"and said to him, 'Get out of your country and from your relatives, and come to a land that I will show you.'
Hebrews 11:8
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
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Genesis 13:9
" Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me. If you take the left, then I will go to the right; or, if you go to the right, then I will go to the left."
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Genesis 17:4 - 6
As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations.
Genesis 18:18
Since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Genesis 46:3
So He said, "I am God, the God of your father; do not fear to go down to Egypt, for I will make of you a great nation there.
Deuteronomy 26:5
And you shall answer and say before the LORD your God: 'My father was a Syrian, about to perish, and he went down to Egypt and dwelt there, few in number; and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
1 Kings 3:8
And Your servant is in the midst of Your people whom You have chosen, a great people, too numerous to be numbered or counted.
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Genesis 22:17
Blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.
Genesis 24:35
The LORD has blessed my master greatly, and he has become great; and He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
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Genesis 28:4
And give you the blessing of Abraham, To you and your descendants with you, That you may inherit the land In which you are a stranger, Which God gave to Abraham.
Zechariah 8:13
And it shall come to pass That just as you were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, So I will save you, and you shall be a blessing. Do not fear, Let your hands be strong.
Galatians 3:14
That the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
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Genesis 24:35
The LORD has blessed my master greatly, and he has become great; and He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
Genesis 27:29
Let peoples serve you, And nations bow down to you. Be master over your brethren, And let your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, And blessed be those who bless you!
Exodus 23:22
But if you indeed obey His voice and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.
Numbers 24:9
'He bows down, he lies down as a lion; And as a lion, who shall rouse him?' "Blessed is he who blesses you, And cursed is he who curses you."
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Cross References
Genesis 18:18
Since Abraham shall surely become a great and m...
Genesis 22:18
"In your seed all the nations of the earth shal...
Genesis 26:4
And I will make your descendants multiply as th...
Genesis 28:14
Also your descendants shall be as the dust of t...
Psalms 72:17
His name shall endure forever; His name shall c...
Matthew 1:1
The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the ...
Luke 3:34
The son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of ...
Acts 3:25
"You are sons of the prophets, and of the coven...
Galatians 3:8
And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would ju...
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Isaiah 41:27
The first time I said to Zion, 'Look, there they are!' And I will give to Jerusalem one who brings good tidings.
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Genesis 14:14
Now when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his three hundred and eighteen trained servants who were born in his own house, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.
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Genesis 11:31
And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there.
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Genesis 13:18
Then Abram moved his tent, and went and dwelt by the terebinth trees of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to the LORD.
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Hebrews 11:9
By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.
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Deuteronomy 11:30
Are they not on the other side of the Jordan, toward the setting sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the plain opposite Gilgal, beside the terebinth trees of Moreh?
Judges 7:1
Then Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him rose early and encamped beside the well of Harod, so that the camp of the Midianites was on the north side of them by the hill of Moreh in the valley.
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Genesis 10:18
The Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were dispersed.
Genesis 10:19
And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; then as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
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Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless.
Genesis 18:1
Then the LORD appeared to him by the terebinth trees of Mamre, as he was sitting in the tent door in the heat of the day.
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Cross References
Genesis 13:15
For all the land which you see I give to you an...
Genesis 15:18
On the same day the LORD made a covenant with A...
Genesis 17:8
"Also I give to you and your descendants after ...
Deuteronomy 34:4
Then the LORD said to him, "This is the land of...
Psalms 105:9 - 12
The covenant which He made with Abraham, And Hi...
Acts 7:5
And God gave him no inheritance in it, not even...
Galatians 3:16
Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises m...
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Genesis 13:4
To the place of the altar which he had made there at first. And there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
Genesis 13:18
Then Abram moved his tent, and went and dwelt by the terebinth trees of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to the LORD.
Genesis 22:9
Then they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, upon the wood.
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Genesis 4:26
And as for Seth, to him also a son was born; and he named him Enosh. Then men began to call on the name of the LORD.
Genesis 13:4
To the place of the altar which he had made there at first. And there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
Genesis 21:33
Then Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there called on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.
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Genesis 13:1
Then Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, to the South.
Genesis 13:3
And he went on his journey from the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai.
Genesis 20:1
And Abraham journeyed from there to the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur, and stayed in Gerar.
Genesis 24:62
Now Isaac came from the way of Beer La-hai' Roi, for he dwelt in the South.
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