Genesis 12:1

Catholic Public Domain Version

Then the Lord said to Abram: "Depart from your land, and from your kindred, and from your father's house, and come into the land that I will show you.

Cross References

Genesis 15:7

And he said to him, "I am the Lord who led you away from Ur of the Chaldeans, so as to give you this land, and so that you would possess it."

Genesis 20:13

Then, after God led me out of my father's house, I said to her: 'You will show this mercy to me. In every place, to which we will travel, you will say that I am your brother.' "

Genesis 24:38

But you shall travel to my father's house, and you shall take a wife of my own kindred for my son.'

Genesis 24:4

But that you will proceed to my land and kindred, and from there take a wife for my son Isaac."

Genesis 24:7

The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my nativity, who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, 'To your offspring I will give this land,' himself will send his Angel before you, and you will take from there a wife for my son.

Genesis 26:2

And the Lord appeared to him, and he said: "Do not descend into Egypt, but rest in the land that I will tell you,

Nehemiah 9:7

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.

Isaiah 37:12

Have the gods of the nations rescued those whom my fathers have conquered: Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden who were at Telassar?

Isaiah 41:9

For his sake, I have taken you from the ends of the earth, and I have called you from its distant places. And I said to you: "You are my servant. I have chosen you, and I have not cast you aside."

Isaiah 51:2

Pay attention to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who bore you. For I called him alone, and I blessed him, and I multiplied him.

Ezekiel 33:24

"Son of man, as for those who live in these ruinous ways on the soil of Israel, when speaking, they say: 'Abraham was one man, and he possessed the land as an inheritance. But we are many; the land has been given to us as a possession.'

Numbers 10:30

And he answered him, "I will not go with you, but I will return to my own land, in which I was born."

2 Corinthians 6:17

Because of this, you must depart from their midst and be separate, says the Lord. And do not touch what is unclean.

Hebrews 11:8

By faith, the one called Abraham obeyed, going out to the place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.

Revelation 18:4

And I heard another voice from heaven, saying: "Go away from her, my people, so that you may not be participants in her pleasures, and so that you may not be recipients of her afflictions.