Through My Bible Yr 03 – March 05

Genesis 11:10 – 13:4

Through My Bible – March 05

Genesis 11:10 – 13:4 (EHV)

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Genesis 11

The Ancestors of Abraham

¹⁰This is the account about the development of the family of Shem.

Shem was 100 years old and became the father of Arphaxad two years after the flood. ¹¹Shem lived 500 years after he became the father of Arphaxad, and he became the father of sons and daughters.

¹²Arphaxad lived 35 years and became the father of Shelah. ¹³Arphaxad lived 403 years after he became the father of Shelah, and he became the father of sons and daughters.^[1]

¹⁴Shelah lived 30 years and became the father of Eber. ¹⁵Shelah lived 403 years after he became the father of Eber, and he became the father of sons and daughters.

¹⁶Eber lived 34 years and became the father of Peleg. ¹⁷Eber lived 430 years after he became the father of Peleg, and he became the father of sons and daughters.

¹⁸Peleg lived 30 years and became the father of Reu. ¹⁹Peleg lived 209 years after he became the father of Reu, and he became the father of sons and daughters.

²⁰Reu lived 32 years and became the father of Serug. ²¹Reu lived 207 years after he became the father of Serug, and he became the father of sons and daughters.

²²Serug lived 30 years and became the father of Nahor. ²³Serug lived 200 years after he became the father of Nahor, and he became the father of sons and daughters.

²⁴Nahor lived 29 years and became the father of Terah. ²⁵Nahor lived 119 years after he became the father of Terah, and he became the father of sons and daughters.

²⁶Terah lived 70 years and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

The Development of the Family of Terah

²⁷Now this is the account about the development^[2] of the family of Terah.

Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot. ²⁸Haran died before his father Terah. He died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

²⁹Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, who was also the father of Iscah. ³⁰Sarai was barren. She had no child.

³¹Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot, who was the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, who was the wife of his son Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there. ³²The days of Terah were 205 years. Terah died in Haran.

The Call of Abram

Genesis 12

¹Now the Lord said to Abram, “Get out of your country and away from your relatives and from your father’s house and go to the land that I will show you. ²I will make you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing. ³I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse anyone who dishonors you. All of the families of the earth will be blessed in you.”

⁴So Abram went, as the Lord had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. ⁵Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, and all the possessions they had accumulated and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to travel to the land of Canaan. Eventually they arrived in the land of Canaan. ⁶Abram passed through the land until he came to the Oak of Moreh at the place called Shechem. The Canaanites were in the land at that time.

⁷The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your descendants.”^[3] Abram built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

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