The Lord said to Abram: "Leave your land. Go to the land I will show you."
God promised: "I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you."Abram went, as the Lord had told him. He took his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot.They traveled to the land of Canaan.There the Lord said: "I will give this land to your children and their children." Abram built an altar to the Lord.