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Genesis 12:3-5
Contemporary English Version
Genesis 12:3-5
Contemporary English Version
3 (A) I will bless those who bless you, but I will put a curse on anyone who puts a curse on you. Everyone on earth will be blessed because of you.[a]
4-5 Abram was 75 years old when the Lord told him to leave the city of Haran. He obeyed and left with his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and slaves they had acquired while in Haran.
When they came to the land of Canaan,
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- 12.3 Everyone … you: Or “Everyone on earth will ask me to bless them as I have blessed you.”
Genesis 12:3-5
New International Version
Genesis 12:3-5
New International Version
3 I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;(A)
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.(B)”[a]
4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot(C) went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old(D) when he set out from Harran.(E) 5 He took his wife Sarai,(F) his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated(G) and the people(H) they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan,(I) and they arrived there.
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- Genesis 12:3 Or earth / will use your name in blessings (see 48:20)
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