₁The LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your relatives, and your father's home, and go to a land that I am going to show you. ₂I will give you many descendants, and they will become a great nation. I will bless you and make your name famous, so that you will be a blessing.

₄When Abram was 75 years old, he started out from Haran, as the LORD had told him to do; and Lot went with him. ₅Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the wealth and all the slaves they had acquired in Haran, and they started out for the land of Canaan.

When they arrived in Canaan, ₆Abram travelled through the land until he came to the sacred tree of Moreh, the holy place at Shechem. (At that time the Canaanites were still living in the land.) ₇The LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, “This is the country that I am going to give to your descendants.” Then Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him. ₈After that, he moved on south to the hill country east of the city of Bethel and set up his camp between Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There also he built an altar and worshipped the LORD. ₉Then he moved on from place to place, going towards the southern part of Canaan.