Genesis 12:1
Now Adonai said to Avram [Exalted father], “Leave + 12:1. Quoted in Heb 11:8 your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you. + 12:1. Quoted in Acts 7:3
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Genesis 11:31Terah took Avram [Exalted father] his son, Lot [Veil, Covering] the son of Haran [Mountaineer], his son’s son, and Sarai [Mockery] his daughter-in-law, his son Avram [Exalted father]’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan [Humbled]. They came to Haran [Mountaineer] and lived there.
Genesis 20:13When God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is your chesed ·loving-kindness· which you shall show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”
Genesis 24:38but you shall go to my father’s house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’
Isaiah 41:9You whom I have taken hold of + 41:9. (8-9) Quoted in Heb 2:16 from the ends of the earth, 2 and called from its corners, 2 and said to you, ‘You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you away;’ 1
Matthew Henry on Genesis 12:1
The pedigree and family of Abram we had an account of in the foregoing chapter; here the Holy Ghost enters upon his story, and henceforward Abram and his seed are almost the only subject of the sacred history. In this chapter we have, I. God's call of Abram to the land of Canaan, ver. 1-3 . II. Abram's obedience to this call, ver. 4, 5 . III. His welcome to the land of Canaan, ver. 6-9 . IV. His journey to Egypt, with an account of what happened to him there. Abram's flight and fault, ver. 10-13 . Sarai's danger… Read the whole commentary →