2. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.
3. I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, and IN THEE shall all the kindred of the earth be blessed:
4. So Abram went out as the Lord had commanded him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went forth from Haran.
5. And he took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all the substance which they had gathered, and the souls which they had gotten in Haran: and they went out to go into the land of Chanaan. And when they were come into it,
6. Abram passed through the country into the place of Sichem, as far as the noble vale: now the Chanaanite was at that time in the land.
7. And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will I give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
8. And passing on from thence to a mountain, that was on the east side of Bethel, he there pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east; he built there also an altar to the Lord, and called upon his name.
9. And Abram went forward, going, and proceeding on to the south.
10. And there came a famine in the country; and Abram went down into Egypt, to sojourn there: for the famine was very grievous in the land.