Genesis 12:1
The Call of Abram
1Now athe Lord said ▼▼Or had said
to Abram, “Go from your country ▼▼Or land
and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. Genesis 12:9
9And Abram journeyed on, still going toward the Negeb.Genesis 12:11-20
11When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance, 12and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they dwill kill me, but they will let you live. 13Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake.” 14When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. 15And when the princes of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house. 16And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.17But the Lord eafflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. 18So Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? 19Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife; take her, and go.” 20And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him, and they sent him away with his wife and all that he had.
Acts 7:3-5
3and said to him, f‘Go out from your land and from your kindred and go into the land that I will show you.’ 4 gThen he went out from the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran. And hafter his father died, iGod removed him from there into this land in which you are now living. 5Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot’s length, but promised jto give it to him as a possession and to his offspring after him, kthough he had no child.Hebrews 11:8
8By faith lAbraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place mthat he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
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