Acts 7:3

New American Bible - revised edition

and said to him, ‘Go forth from your land and [from] your kinsfolk to the land that I will show you.’

Cross References

Genesis 12:1

The Lord said to Abram: Go forth from your land, your relatives, and from your father’s house to a land that I will show you.

Genesis 15:7

He then said to him: I am the Lord who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land as a possession.

Genesis 20:13

When God sent me wandering from my father’s house, I asked her: ‘Would you do me this favor? In whatever place we come to, say: He is my brother.’”

Nehemiah 9:8

You found his heart faithful in your sight, you made the covenant with him To give the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites, and Girgashites to him and his descendants. You fulfilled your promises, for you are just.

Matthew 10:37

“Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;

Luke 14:33

In the same way, everyone of you who does not renounce all his possessions cannot be my disciple. The Simile of Salt.

Acts 7:4

So he went forth from the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. And from there, after his father died, he made him migrate to this land where you now dwell.

2 Corinthians 6:17

Therefore, come forth from them and be separate,” says the Lord, “and touch nothing unclean; then I will receive you

Hebrews 11:8

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance; he went out, not knowing where he was to go.

Joshua 24:3

But I brought your father Abraham from the region beyond the River and led him through the entire land of Canaan. I made his descendants numerous, and gave him Isaac.