^{1 Ref} Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you.

^{2 Ref} I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you, and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

^{3 Ref} I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. In you will all of the families of the earth be blessed."

^{4 Ref} So Abram went, as Yahweh had spoken to him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.

^{5 Ref} Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls who they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. Into the land of Canaan they came.

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

^{7 Ref} Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said, "I will give this land to your seed{or, offspring}." He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him.