Gen 12:1-4, Neh 9:7-8, Act 7:2-3 | ESV | STEP | Now the Lord said to Abram , Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.

Genesis 12:1-4

The Call of Abram

1 Now ^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. 2 ^dAnd I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 ^eI will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and ^fin you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” ^{▼▼Or by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves}

4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from ^hHaran.

Nehemiah 9:7-8

7 You are the Lord, the God ⁱwho chose Abram and brought him out of ^jUr of the Chaldeans ^kand gave him the name Abraham. 8 ^lYou found his heart faithful before you, ^mand made with him the covenant to give to his offspring ⁿthe land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite. ^oAnd you have kept your promise, for you are righteous.

Acts 7:2-3

2 And Stephen said:

^p“Brothers and fathers, hear me. ^qThe God ^rof glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, ^sbefore he lived in Haran, 3 and said to him, ^t‘Go out from your land and from your kindred and go into the land that I will show you.’