Genesis 12:3

If anyone looks after you and does good things for you, I will look after them and be kind to them. But, if anyone puts a curse on you and makes life hard for you, I will put a curse on them and I will make their life very hard. I will use your family to do good things for all the people in the world.”

Barkly (portions)

In The King James Version

And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

In Context

2I am going to bless you. That means I will do good things for you and make you strong. Everyone will know about you and respect your name. I will give you a big family and this family will grow into a strong nation. Your family will do good things for all the other nations on the earth.

4Abram was 75 years old when he left Harran to go to the country of Canaan. This was the country the Lord told him to go to. Abram took his wife Sarai, and his nephew Lot. Before Abram left Harran he picked some men and women to work for him. Abram took all his workers and everything he had with him to Canaan.

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Cross References

Genesis 22:18And I will use your family to do good things for all the nations in the world. You trusted me and did what I asked and so I will keep my promise.”

Genesis 28:14No-one can count the little bits of dirt on the ground and just like that, no-one will be able to count the families that will come from you. Your family will spread out all over the world and be a blessing to all people. That means that you will do good things for them and make them strong.

Genesis 30:30When I came to live here, you only had a few animals, but now you are rich. Everything I did for you worked out well. And God has used me to give you good things. But it is time for me to do something good for my own family.”

Matthew Henry on Genesis 12:2-4

The Call of Abram. ( b. c. 1921.) 1 Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee: 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. We have here the call by which Abram was removed out of the land of his nativity… Read the whole commentary →

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