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Summary
Abram Called To Be a Blessing, as in Genesis 12:1-8, illustration from a Bible card published 1906 by the Providence Lithograph Company

Genesis 12:1 - 12:2 - 12:3 - 12:4 - 12:5 - 12:6 - 12:7 - 12:8

12:1. And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of thy father's house, and come into the land which I shall show thee.

12:2. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.

12:3. I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, and IN THEE shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

'''12:5. And he took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all the substance which they had gathered, and the souls which they had gotten in Haran: and they went out to go into the land of Canaan. And when they were come into it,'''

12:6. Abram passed through the country unto the place of Sichem, as far as the noble vale: now the Canaanite was at that time in the land.

12:4. So Abram went out as the Lord had commanded him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went forth from Haran.

'''12:7. And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will I give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.'''

12:8. And passing on from thence to a mountain, that was on the east side of Bethel, he there pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: he built there also an altar to the Lord, and called upon his name.