Terah’s Descendants

²⁷ This is the genealogy of Terah: Terah begot ^(A)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 ^(B)Sarai,^[a] and the name of Nahor’s wife, ^(C)Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah. ³⁰ But ^(D)Sarai was barren; she had no child.

³¹ And Terah ^(E)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 ^(F)Ur of the Chaldeans to go to ^(G)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^(H)

12 Now the ^(I)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 ^(Q)the ^[b]people whom they had acquired ^(R)in Haran, and they ^(S)departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan. ⁶ Abram ^(T)passed through the land to the place of Shechem, ^(U)as far as ^[c]the terebinth tree of Moreh. ^(V)And the Canaanites were then in the land.

^7 (W)Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, ^(X)“To your ^[d]descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an ^(Y)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 ^(Z)called on the name of the Lord. ⁹ So Abram journeyed, ^(AA)going on still toward the ^[e]South.

⁵⁶ Your father Abraham ^(A)rejoiced to see My day, ^(B)and he saw it and was glad.”

⁷ Therefore know that only ^(A)those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. ⁸ And ^(B)the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, ^(C)“In you all the nations shall be blessed.” ⁹ So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.

^13 (A)Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, ^(B)“Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”), ^14 (C)that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the ^(D)Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive ^(E)the promise of the Spirit through faith.

¹⁶ Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of ^(A)one, ^(B)“And to your Seed,” who is ^(C)Christ.