Genesis 11:26-12:8

New King James Version

²⁶ Now Terah lived seventy years, and ^(A)begot ^[a]Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Terah’s Descendants

²⁷ This is the genealogy of Terah: Terah begot ^(B)Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begot Lot. ²⁸ And Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans. ²⁹ Then Abram and Nahor took wives: the name of Abram’s wife was ^(C)Sarai,^[b] and the name of Nahor’s wife, ^(D)Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah. ³⁰ But ^(E)Sarai was barren; she had no child.

³¹ And Terah ^(F)took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out with them from ^(G)Ur of the Chaldeans to go to ^(H)the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there. ³² So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.

Promises to Abram^(I)

12 Now the ^(J)Lord had said to Abram:

⁴ So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. ⁵ Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and ^(R)the ^[c]people whom they had acquired ^(S)in Haran, and they ^(T)departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan. ⁶ Abram ^(U)passed through the land to the place of Shechem, ^(V)as far as ^[d]the terebinth tree of Moreh. ^(W)And the Canaanites were then in the land.

^7 (X)Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, ^(Y)“To your ^[e]descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an ^(Z)altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him. ⁸ And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; there he built an altar to the Lord and ^(AA)called on the name of the Lord.