⁶ Abram traveled through the land^(A) as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh^(B) at Shechem.^(C) At that time the Canaanites^(D) were in the land. ⁷ The Lord appeared to Abram^(E) and said, “To your offspring^[a] I will give this land.^(F)”^(G) So he built an altar there to the Lord,^(H) who had appeared to him.

¹⁸ Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation,^(A) and all nations on earth will be blessed through him.^{[a] 19} For I have chosen him^(B), so that he will direct his children^(C) and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord^(D) by doing what is right and just,^(E) so that the Lord will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.”^(F)