abraham

¹Then 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. ²And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and magnify your name, and you will be blessed. ³I will bless those who bless you, and curse those who curse you, and in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.” ⁴And so Abram departed just as the Lord had instructed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. ⁵And he took his wife Sarai, and Lot, the son of his brother, and all the substance which they had come to possess, and the lives which they had acquired in Haran, and they departed in order to go to the land of Canaan. And when they arrived in it, ⁶Abram passed through the land even to the place of Shechem, as far as the famous steep valley. Now at that time, the Canaanite was in the land.

⁶Abram believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.

¹In truth, after he began to be ninety-nine years of age, the Lord appeared to him. And he said to him: “I am the Almighty God. Walk in my sight and become complete. ²And I will set my covenant between me and you. And I will multiply you very exceedingly.” ³Abram fell prone on his face. ⁴And God said to him: “I AM, and my covenant is with you, and you will be the father of many nations. ⁵No longer will your name be called Abram. But you will be called Abraham, for I have established you as the father of many nations. ⁶And I will cause you to increase very greatly, and I will set you among the nations, and kings will come forth from you.

¹⁷By faith, Abraham, when he was tested, offered Isaac, so that he who had received the promises was offering up his only son.

²⁹And if you are Christ’s, then are you the offspring of Abraham, heirs according to the promise.

⁸By 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.

¹Then 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.

⁶It is just as it was written: “Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.” ⁷Therefore, know that those who are of faith, these are the sons of Abraham. ⁸Thus Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, foretold to Abraham: “All nations shall be blessed in you.” ⁹And so, those who are of faith shall be blessed with faithful Abraham.

²He said to him: “Take your only begotten son Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of vision. And there you shall offer him as a holocaust upon one of the mountains, which I will show to you.”

¹⁹indicating that God is even able to raise up from the dead. And thus, he also established him as a parable.

²And she conceived and gave birth to a son in her old age, at the time that God had foretold to her.