Joshua 24:2
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 And Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Long ago your ancestors—Terah and his sons Abraham and Nahor—lived beyond the Euphrates and served other gods.(A)
Read full chapter
Joshua 24:15
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
15 Now if you are unwilling to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served in the region beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living, but as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”(A)
Read full chapter
Genesis 31:30
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
30 Even though you had to go because you longed greatly for your father’s house, why did you steal my gods?”(A)
Read full chapter
Ezekiel 16:3
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 and say: Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.(A)
Read full chapter
Isaiah 51:2
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 Look to Abraham your father
and to Sarah, who bore you,
for he was but one when I called him,
but I blessed him and made him many.(A)
Deuteronomy 26:5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 you shall make this response before the Lord your God: ‘A wandering Aramean was my ancestor; he went down into Egypt and lived there as an alien, few in number, and there he became a great nation, mighty and populous.(A)
Read full chapter
Genesis 35:4
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had and the rings that were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the oak that was near Shechem.(A)
Read full chapter
Genesis 31:53
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
53 May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor[a] judge between us.” So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac,(A)
Read full chapterNotas al pie
- 31.53 Heb mss Gk: MT adds the God of their father
Genesis 31:32
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
32 But anyone with whom you find your gods shall not live. In the presence of our kinsfolk, point out what I have that is yours, and take it.” Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the gods.[a](A)
Read full chapterNotas al pie
- 31.32 Heb them
Genesis 31:19
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
19 Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father’s household gods.(A)
Read full chapter
Genesis 11:26-12:1
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
26 When Terah had lived seventy years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Descendants of Terah
27 Now these are the descendants of Terah. Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran was the father of Lot. 28 Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans. 29 Abram and Nahor took wives; the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah. She was the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah. 30 Now Sarai was barren; she had no child.(A)
31 Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot son of Haran and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.(B) 32 The days of Terah were two hundred five years, and Terah died in Haran.
The Call of Abram
12 Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.(C)
New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.