Abram

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Scripture references

• Genesis 11:26

  When Terah was seventy years old he fathered Abram, Nahor and Haran.

• Genesis 11:29

  Abram and Nahor both married: Abram's wife was called Sarai...

• Genesis 11:31

  Terah took his son Abram ... and made them leave Ur of the Chaldaeans to go to the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 12:1

  Yahweh said to Abram, 'Leave your country, your kindred and your father's house for a country which I shall show you;

• Genesis 12:4

  So Abram went as Yahweh told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.

• Genesis 12:7

  Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, 'I shall give this country to your progeny.' And there, Abram built an altar to Yahweh who had appeared to him.

• Genesis 12:10

  There was a famine in the country, and Abram went down to Egypt to stay there for a time...

• Genesis 13:2

  Abram was very rich in livestock, silver and gold.

• Genesis 13:8

  Accordingly Abram said to Lot, 'We do not want discord between us ... for we are kinsmen.'

• Genesis 13:14

  Yahweh said to Abram after Lot had parted company from him, 'Look all round from where you are, to north and south, to east and west,

• Genesis 13:18

  So Abram moved his tent and went to settle at the Oak of Mamre, at Hebron, and there he built an altar to Yahweh.

• Genesis 14:14

  When Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, he mustered his retainers ... and gave chase as far as Dan.

• Genesis 14:16

  He recaptured all the goods as well as his kinsman Lot and his possessions, together with the women and people.

• Genesis 14:18

  Melchizedek king of Salem brought bread and wine; he was a priest of God Most High.

• Genesis 14:20

  And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

• Genesis 14:23

  not one thread, not one sandal strap, will I take of what is yours, for you to be able to say, 'I made Abram rich.'

• Genesis 15:1

  Do not be afraid, Abram! I am your shield and shall give you a very great reward.

• Genesis 15:5

  Look up at the sky and count the stars if you can. Just so will your descendants be.

• Genesis 15:6

  Abram put his faith in Yahweh and this was reckoned to him as uprightness.

• Genesis 15:7

  I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldaeans to give you this country as your possession.

• Genesis 15:18

  That day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram in these terms: 'To your descendants I give this country...'

• Genesis 16:3

  Thus, after Abram had lived in the land of Canaan for ten years, Sarai took Hagar her Egyptian slave-girl and gave her to Abram as his wife.

• Genesis 16:4

  He went to Hagar and she conceived.

• Genesis 16:15

  Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave his son borne by Hagar the name Ishmael.

• Genesis 16:16

  Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.

• Genesis 17:5

  And you are no longer to be called Abram; your name is to be Abraham...

• Genesis 17:19

  your wife Sarah will bear you a son whom you must name Isaac.

• Genesis 17:24

  Abraham was ninety-nine years old when his foreskin was circumcised.