Nehemiah 9:7 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) Thou art the Lord, the God who didst choose Abram and bring him forth out of Ur of the Chaldeans and give him the name Abraham; More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You are the Lord, the God Who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees and gave him the name Abraham. American Standard Version (1901) Thou art Jehovah the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham, Common English Bible LORD God, you are the one who chose Abram. You brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham. Catholic Public Domain Version You yourself, O Lord God, are the One who chose Abram. And you led him away from the fire of the Chaldeans, and you gave him the name Abraham. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thou, O Lord God, art he who chosest Abram, and broughtest him forth out of the fire of the Chaldeans, and gavest him the name of Abraham. |
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 together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan; but when they came to Haran, they settled there.
And he said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess.”
No longer shall your name be Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
No, for I have chosen him, that he may charge his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice; so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him.”
Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him and made him many.
yet the Lord set his heart in love upon your fathers and chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as at this day.