Genesis 12:1

New Century Version

The Lord said to Abram, “Leave your country, your relatives, and your father’s family, and go to the land I will show you.

Cross References

Genesis 15:7

God said to Abram, “I am the Lord who led you out of Ur of Babylonia so that I could give you this land to own.”

Genesis 20:13

When God told me to leave my father’s house and wander in many different places, I told Sarah, ‘You must do a special favor for me. Everywhere we go tell people I am your brother.’ ”

Genesis 24:38

Instead, you must go to my father’s people and to my family. There you must get a wife for my son.’

Genesis 24:4

Instead, go back to my country, to the land of my relatives, and get a wife for my son Isaac.”

Genesis 24:7

The Lord, the God of heaven, brought me from the home of my father and the land of my relatives. And he promised me, “I will give this land to your descendants.’ The Lord will send his angel before you to help you get a wife for my son there.

Genesis 26:2

The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, “Don’t go down to Egypt, but live in the land where I tell you to live.

Nehemiah 9:7

“You are the Lord, the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur in Babylonia and named him Abraham.

Isaiah 37:12

Did the gods of those people save them? My ancestors destroyed them, defeating the cities of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and the people of Eden living in Tel Assar.

Isaiah 41:9

I took you from places far away on the earth and called you from a faraway country. I said, ‘You are my servants.’ I have chosen you and have not turned against you.

Isaiah 51:2

Look at Abraham, your ancestor, and Sarah, who gave birth to your ancestors. Abraham had no children when I called him, but I blessed him and gave him many descendants.

Ezekiel 33:24

“Human, people who live in the ruins in the land of Israel are saying: ‘Abraham was only one person, yet he was given the land as his own. Surely the land has been given to us, who are many, as our very own.’

Numbers 10:30

But Hobab answered, “No, I will not go. I will go back to my own land where I was born.”

2 Corinthians 6:17

“Leave those people, and be separate, says the Lord. Touch nothing that is unclean, and I will accept you.”

Hebrews 11:8

It was by faith Abraham obeyed God’s call to go to another place God promised to give him. He left his own country, not knowing where he was to go.

Revelation 18:4

Then I heard another voice from heaven saying: “Come out of that city, my people, so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive the disasters that will come to her.