Genesis 12:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

Now the LORD had said to Abram, Get yourself out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father's house, to a land that I will show you:

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  • Heb 11:8 : 8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out to a place which he would afterward receive as an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing where he was going.
  • Rev 18:4 : 4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that you may not be partakers of her sins, and that you may not receive her plagues.
  • Gen 15:7 : 7 And He said to him, I am the LORD that brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it.
  • Josh 24:2-3 : 2 And Joshua said to all the people, Thus says the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers lived on the other side of the river in ancient times, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods. 3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the river, and led him through all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his descendants, and gave him Isaac.
  • Neh 9:7 : 7 You are the LORD God, who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans, and gave him the name Abraham;
  • Isa 41:9 : 9 You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called you from the chief men thereof, and said to you, You are my servant; I have chosen you, and not cast you away.
  • Isa 51:2 : 2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
  • Luke 14:26-33 : 26 If any man comes to me and does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. 27 And whoever does not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. 28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it? 29 Lest perhaps, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all who see it begin to mock him, 30 Saying, This man began to build and was not able to finish. 31 Or what king, going to make war against another king, does not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32 Or else, while the other is still a great way off, he sends an envoy and desires conditions of peace. 33 So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be my disciple.
  • Acts 7:2-6 : 2 And he said, Men, brothers, and fathers, listen; The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, 3 And said to him, Get out of your country, and from your kindred, and come into the land which I will show you. 4 Then he came out of the land of the Chaldeans, and lived in Haran; and from there, when his father was dead, he moved him into this land, where you now dwell. 5 And He gave him no inheritance in it, not even enough to set his foot on; yet he promised that He would give it to him for a possession, and to his descendants after him, when as yet he had no child. 6 And God spoke in this way, that his descendants would dwell in a strange land, and that they would bring them into bondage, and treat them poorly for four hundred years.
  • 2 Cor 6:17 : 17 Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.
  • Ezek 33:24 : 24 Son of man, those who inhabit the ruins in the land of Israel are speaking, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us as a possession.
  • Ps 45:10-11 : 10 Listen, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear; forget your own people, and your father's house; 11 So shall the king greatly desire your beauty: for he is your Lord; and you shall worship him.
  • Gen 11:31-32 : 31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and lived there. 32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.

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  • Acts 7:2-4
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    2And he said, Men, brothers, and fathers, listen; The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

    3And said to him, Get out of your country, and from your kindred, and come into the land which I will show you.

    4Then he came out of the land of the Chaldeans, and lived in Haran; and from there, when his father was dead, he moved him into this land, where you now dwell.

  • Gen 12:2-9
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    2And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing:

    3And I will bless those who bless you, and curse him who curses you: and in you shall all families of the earth be blessed.

    4So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken to him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

    5And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran; and they set out to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to the land of Canaan.

    6And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

    7And the LORD appeared to Abram, and said, To your descendants will I give this land: and there he built an altar to the LORD, who appeared to him.

    8And he moved from there to a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east: and there he built an altar to the LORD, and called on the name of the LORD.

    9And Abram journeyed, continuing toward the south.

  • Gen 15:7-8
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    7And He said to him, I am the LORD that brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it.

    8And he said, Lord GOD, how shall I know that I shall inherit it?

  • Gen 13:17-18
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    17Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its breadth; for I will give it to you.

    18Then Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelled in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar to the LORD.

  • Gen 11:31
    77%

    31And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and lived there.

  • Gen 24:7
    76%

    7The LORD God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my relatives, and who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, 'To your descendants I will give this land,' He will send His angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.

  • Gen 13:14-15
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    14And the LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, Lift up now your eyes, and look from the place where you are northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:

    15For all the land which you see, to you will I give it, and to your descendants forever.

  • Gen 15:1-2
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    1After these things, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am your shield, and your exceedingly great reward.

    2And Abram said, Lord GOD, what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?

  • Gen 26:2-3
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    2And the LORD appeared to him, and said, Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land which I shall tell you of:

    3Stay in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you; for to you, and to your descendants, I will give all these countries, and I will fulfill the oath which I swore to Abraham your father;

  • Gen 31:13
    75%

    13I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar, and where you vowed a vow unto me: now arise, get out of this land, and return unto the land of your kindred.

  • Josh 24:3
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    3And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the river, and led him through all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his descendants, and gave him Isaac.

  • Neh 9:7
    75%

    7You are the LORD God, who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans, and gave him the name Abraham;

  • Gen 13:9
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    9Is not the whole land before you? separate yourself, I pray you, from me: if you will take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if you depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

  • Exod 33:1
    74%

    1And the LORD said to Moses, Depart, and go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, 'To your descendants will I give it:'

  • Heb 11:8
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    8By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out to a place which he would afterward receive as an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing where he was going.

  • Gen 28:13
    74%

    13And behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: the land where you lie, I will give to you and to your descendants;

  • Gen 22:1-2
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    74%

    1And it happened after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.

    2And He said, Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah; and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.

  • Gen 17:5-6
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    5Neither shall your name any more be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made you.

    6And I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you.

  • Gen 28:4
    73%

    4And give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your descendants with you; that you may inherit the land where you are a stranger, which God gave to Abraham.

  • Gen 35:12
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    12And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to you I will give it, and to your descendants after you I will give the land.

  • Gen 13:1
    73%

    1And Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.

  • Gen 18:18
    73%

    18Since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

  • Gen 17:2
    73%

    2And I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.