⁴³ So listen carefully, my son. Get ready and flee to my brother, Laban, in Haran.

⁸ Now, my son, listen to me. Do exactly as I tell you.

³¹ One day Terah took his son Abram, his daughter-in-law Sarai (his son Abram’s wife), and his grandson Lot (his son Haran’s child) and moved away from Ur of the Chaldeans. He was headed for the land of Canaan, but they stopped at Haran and settled there.

¹³ But his mother replied, “Then let the curse fall on me, my son! Just do what I tell you. Go out and get the goats for me!”

²⁹ But Peter and the apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than any human authority.

¹⁴ The Recabites do not drink wine to this day because their ancestor Jehonadab told them not to. But I have spoken to you again and again, and you refuse to obey me.

⁷ He also knew that Jacob had obeyed his parents and gone to Paddan-aram.

²⁹ Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, who ran out to meet the man at the spring.

⁴ So Abram departed as the Lord had instructed, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran. ⁵ He took his wife, Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all his wealth—his livestock and all the people he had taken into his household at Haran—and headed for the land of Canaan. When they arrived in Canaan,