I will also bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

So Abram departed, even as the Lord spake unto him, and Lot went with him, (and Abram was seventy and five years old, when he departed out of Haran)

Then Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they possessed, and the [a]souls that they had gotten in Haran, and they departed to go to the land of Canaan, and to the land of Canaan they came.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 12:5 Meaning, as well servants as cattle.

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]

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) 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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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 12:3 Or earth / will use your name in blessings (see 48:20)