²⁶ After Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram,^(A) Nahor^(B) and Haran.^(C)

Abram’s Family

²⁷ This is the account^(D) of Terah’s family line.

Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor^(E) and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.^{(F) 28} While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans,^(G) in the land of his birth. ²⁹ Abram and Nahor^(H) both married. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai,^(I) and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milkah;^(J) she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milkah and Iskah. ³⁰ Now Sarai was childless because she was not able to conceive.^(K)

³¹ Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot^(L) son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law^(M) Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans^(N) to go to Canaan.^(O) But when they came to Harran,^(P) they settled there.

³² Terah^(Q) lived 205 years, and he died in Harran.

The Call of Abram

12 The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household^(R) to the land^(S) I will show you.^(T)

⁴ So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot^(Z) went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old^(AA) when he set out from Harran.^{(AB) 5} He took his wife Sarai,^(AC) his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated^(AD) and the people^(AE) they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan,^(AF) and they arrived there.

⁶ Abram traveled through the land^(AG) as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh^(AH) at Shechem.^(AI) At that time the Canaanites^(AJ) were in the land. ⁷ The Lord appeared to Abram^(AK) and said, “To your offspring^[c] I will give this land.^(AL)”^(AM) So he built an altar there to the Lord,^(AN) who had appeared to him.

⁸ From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel^(AO) and pitched his tent,^(AP) with Bethel on the west and Ai^(AQ) on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.^(AR)

⁹ Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.^(AS)

⁸ By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance,^(A) obeyed and went,^(B) even though he did not know where he was going. ⁹ By faith he made his home in the promised land^(C) like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents,^(D) as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.^{(E) 10} For he was looking forward to the city^(F) with foundations,^(G) whose architect and builder is God.^{(H) 11} And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age,^(I) was enabled to bear children^(J) because she^[a] considered him faithful^(K) who had made the promise. ¹² And so from this one man, and he as good as dead,^(L) came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.^(M)