⁵ Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and ^(A)the ^[a]people whom they had acquired ^(B)in Haran, and they ^(C)departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan. ⁶ Abram ^(D)passed through the land to the place of Shechem, ^(E)as far as ^[b]the terebinth tree of Moreh. ^(F)And the Canaanites were then in the land.

^7 (G)Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, ^(H)“To your ^[c]descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an ^(I)altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

⁸ Also ^(A)I give to you and your descendants after you the land ^(B)in^[a] which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and ^(C)I will be their God.”

¹⁸ Now ^(A)for a time of about forty years He put up with their ways in the wilderness. ¹⁹ And when He had destroyed ^(B)seven nations in the land of Canaan, ^(C)He distributed their land to them by allotment.

²⁰ “After that ^(D)He gave them judges for about four hundred and fifty years, ^(E)until Samuel the prophet.