Genesis 12:1

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

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.’”

Genesis 24:38

instead, you must go to my father’s house, to my own family, to get a wife for my son.’

Genesis 24:4

but that you will go to my own land and to my relatives to get a wife for my son Isaac.”

Genesis 24:7

The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and the land of my relatives, and who confirmed by oath the promise he made to me, ‘I will give this land to your descendants’—he will send his angel before you, and you will get a wife for my son there.

Genesis 26:2

The Lord appeared to him and said: Do not go down to Egypt, but camp in this land wherever I tell you.

Nehemiah 9:7

You are the Lord God who chose Abram, Who brought him from Ur of the Chaldees, who named him Abraham.

Isaiah 37:12

Did the gods of the nations whom my fathers destroyed deliver them—Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the Edenites in Telassar?

Isaiah 41:9

You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth and summoned from its far-off places, To whom I have said, You are my servant; I chose you, I have not rejected you—

Isaiah 51:2

Look to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth; Though he was but one when I called him, I blessed him and made him many.

Ezekiel 33:24

Son of man, these who live among the ruins in the land of Israel are saying: “Abraham was only one person, yet he was given possession of the land. Since we are many, the land must be given to us as our possession.”

Numbers 10:30

But he answered, “No, I will not come. I am going instead to the land of my birth.”

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.

Revelation 18:4

Then I heard another voice from heaven say: “Depart from her, my people, so as not to take part in her sins and receive a share in her plagues,