³ And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the River, guiding him through all the land of Canaan; I made his offspring great in number, and gave him Isaac.

¹ Now the Lord said to Abram, Go out from your country and from your family and from your father's house, into the land to which I will be your guide:

² And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:

³ To them who are good to you will I give blessing, and on him who does you wrong will I put my curse: and you will become a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.

⁴ So Abram went as the Lord had said to him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went away from Haran.

² And Sarah became with child, and gave Abraham a son when he was old, at the time named by God.

³ And Abraham gave to his son, to whom Sarah had given birth, the name Isaac.

² And he said, My brothers and fathers, give hearing. The God of glory came to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he was living in Haran,

³ And said to him, Go out of your land, and away from your family, and come into the land to which I will be your guide.

⁵ And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.

⁷ You are the Lord, the God, who took Abram and made him yours, guiding him from Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Abraham;

⁸ You saw that his heart was true to you, and made an agreement with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Jebusite and the Girgashite, even to give it to his seed, and you have done what you said; for righteousness is yours:

³ See, sons are a heritage from the Lord; the fruit of the body is his reward.