Nehemiah 9:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ You are the Lord, the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ 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

⁷ 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)

⁷ 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

⁷ 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

⁷ 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

⁷ 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.

Nehemiah 9:7 Cross References

Genesis 11:31

Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot son of Haran and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.

Genesis 15:7

Then he said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess.”

Genesis 17:5

No longer shall your name be Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the ancestor of a multitude of nations.

Genesis 18:19

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 about for Abraham what he has promised him.”

1 Chronicles 1:27

Abram, that is, Abraham.

Isaiah 51:2

Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah, who bore you, for he was but one when I called him, but I blessed him and made him many.

Deuteronomy 10:15

yet the Lord set his heart in love on your ancestors alone and chose you, their descendants after them, out of all the peoples, as it is today.