Genesis 12:1-3

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The Call of Abram

12 The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household^(A) to the land^(B) I will show you.^(C)

²“I will make you into a great nation,^(D)
    and I will bless you;^(E)
I will make your name great,
    and you will be a blessing.^[a]^(F)
³I will bless those who bless you,
    and whoever curses you I will curse;^(G)
and all peoples on earth
    will be blessed through you.^(H)”^[b]

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Footnotes

Genesis 12:2 Or be seen as blessed
Genesis 12:3 Or earth / will use your name in blessings (see 48:20)

Joshua 24:3

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³But I took your father Abraham from the land beyond the Euphrates and led him throughout Canaan^(A) and gave him many descendants.^(B) I gave him Isaac,^(C)

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Nehemiah 9:7

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⁷“You are the Lord God, who chose Abram^(A) and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans^(B) and named him Abraham.^(C)

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Isaiah 51:2

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²look to Abraham,^(A) your father,
and to Sarah, who gave you birth.
When I called him he was only one man,
and I blessed him and made him many.^(B)

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Acts 7:2

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²To this he replied: “Brothers and fathers,^(A) listen to me! The God of glory^(B) appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Harran.^(C)

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