Called To Bless Others

1 Now (A) the LORD said to Abram, "Go forth from your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land which I will show you; 2 and (B) I will make you a great nation, and (C) I will bless you, and make your name great; and so (D) you shall be a blessing; 3 and (E) I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse, (F) and in you all the families of Earth will be blessed."

4 So Abram went forth as the LORD had spoken to him; and (G) Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

5 Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his nephew, and all their (H) possessions which they had accumulated, and (I) the persons which they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan; (J) thus they came to the land of Canaan.

6 Abram passed through the land as far as the site of (K) Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanite was then in the land.

7 The LORD (L) appeared to Abram and said, "(M) To your descendants I will give this land " So he built (N) an altar there to the LORD Who had appeared to him.

8 Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with (O) Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and (P) called upon the name of the LORD.

9 Abram journeyed on, continuing toward (Q) the [a] Negev.

-Genesis 12:1-9