Genesis 12:1-9

God told Abram: “Leave your country, your family, and your father’s home for a land that I will show you.Â

 I’ll make you a great nation
      and bless you.
   I’ll make you famous;
      you’ll be a blessing.
   I’ll bless those who bless you;
      those who curse you I’ll curse.
   All the families of the Earth
      will be blessed through you.” So Abram left just as God said, and Lot left with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran. Abram took his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot with him, along with all the possessions and people they had gotten in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan and arrived safe and sound.

   Abram passed through the country as far as Shechem and the Oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites occupied the land.

 God appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your children.” Abram built an altar at the place God had appeared to him.

 He moved on from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent between Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. He built an altar there and prayed to God.

 Abram kept moving, steadily making his way south, to the Negev.

2 Responses to “Genesis 12:1-9”

  1. linda jones says:

    word that struck me was “steadily” how do I work on God’s time scale? how do I discern when I am moving too slowly on stuff or rushing ahead of God?

  2. Dot says:

    I think for me it wasn\’t actually a word, but rather the fact that at 75 a new journey was beckoning and he trusted without questioning!! awesome

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