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Now ^(C1)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;

And ^(C1)I will make you into a great nation, And ^(C2)I will bless you, And make your name great; And you shall ^(C3)be a blessing;

And ^(C1)I will bless those who bless you, And the one who ^(F1)curses you I will ^(F2)curse. ^(C2)And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed."

So Abram went away as the LORD had spoken to him; and ^(C1)Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

Abram took his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot, and all their ^(C1)possessions which they had accumulated, and ^(C2)the ^(F1)people which they had acquired in Haran, and they ^(F2)set out for the land of Canaan; ^(C3)so they came to the land of Canaan.

Abram passed through the land as far as the site of ^(C1)Shechem, to the ^(F1)oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanites were in the land at that time.

And the LORD ^(C1)appeared to Abram and said, "^(C2)To your ^(F1)descendants I will give this land." So he built ^(C3)an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him.