Read Genesis 12:1-9 (English Standard Version) on maBible, the Bible online. Other reference formats: Genesis 12.1-9, Genesis 12v1-9, Gen. 12:1-9. Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a gr…
Other reference formats: Genesis 12.1-9, Genesis 12v1-9, Gen. 12:1-9.
1 Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.
2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,
6 Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
7 Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
8 From there he moved to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord.
9 And Abram journeyed on, still going toward the Negeb.
Passage themes
God's call — Now the LORD had said unto Abram
Leaving all to obey — Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house
The promise to Abraham — I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great
Blessed for others — thou shalt be a blessing
Blessing or cursing Abraham — I will bless them that bless thee
A universal promise — in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed
Lot the nephew — and Lot went with him
Leaving by faith — Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran
A large household — all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten
Leaving Haran — in Haran
Arriving in Canaan — into the land of Canaan they came
Abram's journey — Abram passed through the land
Shechem, place of memory — unto the place of Sichem
The site of Moreh — unto the plain of Moreh
A land already inhabited — the Canaanite was then in the land
When God appears — the LORD appeared unto Abram
The promise of the land — Unto thy seed will I give this land
The altar of worship — there builded he an altar unto the LORD
Bethel and its history — having Beth-el on the west
Ai, city of the conquest — and Hai on the east
A stranger in the promised land — pitched his tent
The altar of the patriarchs — there he builded an altar unto the LORD
Calling on the name — called upon the name of the LORD
Bereshit : « Au commencement » Le mot « Genèse » vient du grec genesis, qui signifie « origine ». En hébreu, le livre s'appelle Bereshit, « Au commencement », son tout premier mot.
About this book
Author: Moïse · Written: XVe – XIIIe siècle av. J.-C. · Reading time: ≈ 3h30 · Characters: Adam, Ève, Noé, Abraham (Abram), Sara (Saraï), Isaac, Jacob (Israël), Joseph