10. Time to move (12:1-9)

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II. Abraham

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God calls Abram

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1 Our Lord spoke to Abram:

—Go far from the land where you were born

leave your father's house

and go wandering

to the land I will show you

2 I will turn you into a great people

I will bless you

your name I will make great

so it becomes a blessing

3 I will bless

whoever blesses you

and whoever speaks badly of you

I will curse

and through you will be blessed

all the communities of the world

4 Abram went as Our Lord had told him and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran. 5 Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son and all his wealth and all their people from Haran, and they went off wandering as far as the land of Canaan, and they got to Canaan. 6 Abram crossed into the land and reached a place called Shechem by the great tree of Moreh, in the time when the Canaanites were in the land. 7 Our Lord appeared to Abram and said:

—I am going to give this land to your descendants.

He build there an altar for Our Lord who had appeared to him.

8 He left that place and reached the mountain to the east of Beyt-El. He stretched out his tent in a place where Beyt-El was to the west and Ay was to the east. He built there an altar for Our Lord and called in the name of Our Lord. 9 Abram set off and went wandering to the south.