Genesis 12:4

So Avram departed as Hashem had told him; and Lot went with him; and Avram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Charan.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.

In Context

3And I will bless the one blessing you, and curse him that curses you; and kol mishpochot haadamah shall be blessed through you. + 12:3 There is a brocha in this verse that many do not know but that every true follower of Moshiach should know.

5And Avram took Sarai his isha, and Lot his brotherʼs son, and all their possessions that they had amassed, and the nefesh that they had gotten in Charan; and they went forth to go into the land of Kena'an; and they arrived in the land of Kena'an.

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Cross References

Genesis 11:27Now these are the toldot Terach: Terach fathered Avram, Nachor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot.

Genesis 13:5And Lot also, which walked with Avram, had tzon, and herds, and ohalim.

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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