Genesis 12:1

Forsothe the Lord seide to Abram, Go thou out of thi lond, and of thi kynrede, and of the hous of thi fadir, and come thou in to the lond which Y schal schewe to thee;

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In The King James Version

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 shew thee:

In Context

2and Y schal make thee in to a greet folk, and Y schal blisse thee, and Y schal magnyfie thi name, and thou schalt be blessid;

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Cross References

Genesis 11:31And so Thare took Abram, his sone, and Loth, the sone of Aran his sone, and Saray, his douyter in lawe, the wijf of Abram, his sone, and ledde hem out of Vr of Caldeis, that thei schulen go in to the lond of Chanaan; and thei camen `til to Aran, and dwelliden there.

Genesis 20:13sotheli aftir that God ladde me out of the hous of my fadir, Y seide to hir, Thou schalt do this mercy with me in ech place to which we schulen entre; thou schalt seie, that Y am thi brother.

Genesis 24:38but thou schalt go to the hous of my fadir, and of myn kynrede thou schalt take a wijf to my sone.

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 →

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