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From Shem to Abram
These are the family records of Shem. Shem lived 100 years and fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.
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Terah lived 70 years and fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
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These are the family records of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran fathered Lot.
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Abram and Nahor took wives: Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah. She was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah.
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Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran’s son), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they set out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.
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The Call of Abram
The Lord said to Abram: Go out from your land, your relatives, and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.
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So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was 75 years old when he left Haran.
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Abram passed through the land to the site of Shechem, at the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
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Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So he built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him.
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Then Abram journeyed by stages to the Negev.
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Abram in Egypt
There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine in the land was severe.
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When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
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He treated Abram well because of her, and Abram acquired flocks and herds, male and female donkeys, male and female slaves, and camels.
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But the Lord struck Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram’s wife Sarai.
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So Pharaoh sent for Abram and said, “What have you done to me? Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?
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Abram and Lot Separate
Then Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev—he, his wife, and all he had, and Lot with him.
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Abram was very rich in livestock, silver, and gold.
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to the site where he had built the altar. And Abram called on the name of Yahweh there.
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Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks, herds, and tents.
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and there was quarreling between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land.
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Then Abram said to Lot, “Please, let’s not have quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, since we are relatives.
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Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot lived in the cities of the valley and set up his tent near Sodom.
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After Lot had separated from him, the Lord said to Abram, “Look from the place where you are. Look north and south, east and west,
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So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the Lord.
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Abram Rescues Lot
In those days Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim
