Genesis 12:1-9
1599 Geneva Bible
12 1 Abram by God’s commandment goeth to Canaan. 3 Christ is promised. 7 Abram buildeth Altars for exercise and declaration of his faith among the infidels. 10 Because of the dearth he goeth into Egypt. 15 Pharaoh taketh his wife, and is punished.
1 For the Lord had said unto Abram, (A)[a]Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house unto [b]the land that I will show thee.
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and will bless thee, and make thy name great, and thou shalt be a [c]blessing.
3 I will also bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
4 So Abram departed, even as the Lord spake unto him, and Lot went with him, (and Abram was seventy and five years old, when he departed out of Haran)
5 Then Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they possessed, and the [d]souls that they had gotten in Haran, and they departed to go to the land of Canaan, and to the land of Canaan they came.
6 ¶ So Abram [e]passed through the land unto the place of Shechem, and unto the [f]plain of Moreh (and the [g]Canaanite was then in the land)
7 And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land. And there built he [h]an altar unto the Lord, which appeared unto him.
8 Afterward removing [i]thence unto a mountain Eastward from Bethel, he pitched his tent having Bethel on the West side, and Ai on the East, and there he built an [j]altar unto the Lord, and called on the Name of the Lord.
9 [k]Again Abram went forth going and journeying toward the South.
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- Genesis 12:1 From the flood to this time were four hundred twenty and three years.
- Genesis 12:1 In appointed him no certain place, he proveth so much more his faith and obedience.
- Genesis 12:2 The world shall recover by thy seed, which is Christ, the blessing which they lost in Adam.
- Genesis 12:5 Meaning, as well servants as cattle.
- Genesis 12:6 He wandered to and fro in the land before he could find a settling place: thus God exerciseth the faith of his children.
- Genesis 12:6 Or, oak grove.
- Genesis 12:6 Which was a cruel and rebellious nation, by whom God kept his in continual exercise.
- Genesis 12:7 It was not enough for him to worship God in his heart, but it was expedient to declare by outward profession his faith before men, whereof this altar was a sign.
- Genesis 12:8 Because of the troubles that he had among that wicked people.
- Genesis 12:8 And so served the true God, and renounced all idolatry.
- Genesis 12:9 Thus the children of God may look for no rest in this world, but must wait for the heavenly rest and quietness.
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