He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.

Abram travelled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. The Lord appeared to Abram and said, ‘To your offspring[a] I will give this land.’ So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 12:7 Or seed