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Terah lived seventy years, and fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
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Now these are the records of the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot.
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Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah.
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Now Terah took his son Abram, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they departed together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they went as far as Haran and settled there.
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Abram Journeys to Egypt
Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country, And from your relatives And from your father’s house, To the land which I will show you;
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So Abram went away as the Lord had spoken to him; and Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
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Abram took his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot, and all their possessions which they had accumulated, and the people which they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan; so they came to the land of Canaan.
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Abram passed through the land as far as the site of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanites were in the land at that time.
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And the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him.
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Then Abram journeyed on, continuing toward the Negev.
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Now there was a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a time, because the famine was severe in the land.
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Now it came about, when Abram entered Egypt, that the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
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Therefore he treated Abram well for her sake; and he gave him sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants and female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
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But the Lord struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
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Then Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
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Abram and Lot
So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, he and his wife and all that belonged to him, and Lot with him.
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Now Abram was very rich in livestock, silver, and gold.
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to the place of the altar which he had made there previously; and there Abram called on the name of the Lord.
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Now Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks, herds, and tents.
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And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. Now the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land at that time.
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So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no strife between you and me, nor between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are relatives!
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Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled in the cities of the vicinity of the Jordan, and moved his tents as far as Sodom.
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The Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Now raise your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward, and eastward and westward;
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Then Abram moved his tent and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron; and there he built an altar to the Lord.
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They also took Lot, Abram’s nephew, and his possessions and departed, for he was living in Sodom.
