^{1 Ref} Now Jehovah said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I will show thee:

^{2 Ref} and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make they name great; and be thou a blessing;

^{3 Ref} and I will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee will I curse: and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

^{4 Ref} So Abram went, as Jehovah had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.

^{5 Ref} 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.

^{6 Ref} And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Shechem, unto the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

^{7 Ref} And Jehovah appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto Jehovah, who appeared unto him.