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Genesis 12

Gen. 12:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Now the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
had said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
untol Abram
'Abram (Hebrew #87)
high father; Abram, the original name of Abraham
KJV usage: Abram.
Pronounce: ab-rawm'
Origin: contracted from 48
, Get thee out
yalak (Hebrew #3212)
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
KJV usage: X again, away, bear, bring, carry (away), come (away), depart, flow, + follow(-ing), get (away, hence, him), (cause to, made) go (away, -ing, -ne, one's way, out), grow, lead (forth), let down, march, prosper, + pursue, cause to run, spread, take away ((-journey)), vanish, (cause to) walk(-ing), wax, X be weak.
Pronounce: yaw-lak'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1980)
of thy country
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
, and from thy kindred
mowledeth (Hebrew #4138)
nativity (plural birth-place); by implication, lineage, native country; also offspring, family
KJV usage: begotten, born, issue, kindred, native(-ity).
Pronounce: mo-leh'-deth
Origin: from 3205
, and from thy father’s
'ab (Hebrew #1)
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application)
KJV usage: chief, (fore-)father(-less), X patrimony, principal. Compare names in "Abi-".
Pronounce: awb
Origin: a primitive word
house
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
, unto a land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
that I will show
ra'ah (Hebrew #7200)
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
KJV usage: advise self, appear, approve, behold, X certainly, consider, discern, (make to) enjoy, have experience, gaze, take heed, X indeed, X joyfully, lo, look (on, one another, one on another, one upon another, out, up, upon), mark, meet, X be near, perceive, present, provide, regard, (have) respect, (fore-, cause to, let) see(-r, -m, one another), shew (self), X sight of others, (e-)spy, stare, X surely, X think, view, visions.
Pronounce: raw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
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Gen. 11:31• 31And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth together out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to go into the land of Canaan, and came as far as Haran, and dwelt there. (Gen. 11:31)
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Gen. 15:7• 7And he said to him, I am Jehovah who brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give thee this land to possess it. (Gen. 15:7)
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Neh. 9:7• 7Thou art the Same, Jehovah Elohim, who didst choose Abram and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham; (Neh. 9:7)
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Isa. 41:2• 2Who raised up from the east him whom righteousness calleth to its foot? He gave the nations before him, and caused him to have dominion over kings; he gave them as dust to his sword, as driven stubble to his bow. (Isa. 41:2)
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Acts 7:3• 3and said to him, Go out of thy land and out of thy kindred, and come into the land which I will shew thee. (Acts 7:3)
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Heb. 11:8• 8By faith Abraham, being called, obeyed to go out into the place which he was to receive for an inheritance, and went out, not knowing where he was going. (Heb. 11:8)

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Ministry on This Verse

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1-3:  God calls Abram, and blesses him with a promise of Christ.
4-5:  He departs with Lot from Haran, and comes to Canaan.
6:  He journeys through Canaan,
7-9:  which is promised to him in a vision.
10:  He is driven by famine into Egypt.
11-13:  Fear makes him feign his wife to be his sister.
14-17:  Pharaoh, having taken her from him, by plagues is compelled to restore her.
18-20:  He reproves Abram, whom he dismisses.
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Gen. 11:31‑32• 31And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth together out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to go into the land of Canaan, and came as far as Haran, and dwelt there.
 32And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran. (Gen. 11:31‑32)
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Gen. 15:7• 7And he said to him, I am Jehovah who brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give thee this land to possess it. (Gen. 15:7)
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Neh. 9:7• 7Thou art the Same, Jehovah Elohim, who didst choose Abram and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham; (Neh. 9:7)
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Isa. 41:9• 9--thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called from the extremities thereof, and to whom I said, Thou art my servant, I have chosen thee and not rejected thee, (Isa. 41:9)
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Isa. 51:2• 2Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bore you; for I called him when he was alone, and blessed him, and multiplied him. (Isa. 51:2)
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Ezek. 33:24• 24Son of man, they that inhabit those waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited this land, and we are many: the land is given us for a possession. (Ezek. 33:24)
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Josh. 24:2‑3• 2And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel: Your fathers dwelt of old on the other side of the river, Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, and they served other gods.
 3And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the river, and led him throughout the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed and gave him Isaac. (Josh. 24:2‑3)
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Psa. 45:10‑11• 10Hearken, daughter, and see, and incline thine ear; and forget thine own people and thy father's house:
 11And the king will desire thy beauty; for he is thy Lord, and worship thou him. (Psa. 45:10‑11)
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Luke 14:26‑33• 26If any man come to me, and shall not hate his own father and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple;
 27and whoever does not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.
 28For which of you, desirous of building a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, if he have what is needed to complete it;
 29in order that, having laid the foundation of it, and not being able to finish it, all who see it do not begin to mock at him,
 30saying, This man began to build and was not able to finish?
 31Or what king, going on his way to engage in war with another king, does not, sitting down first, take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him coming against him with twenty thousand?
 32and if not, while he is yet far off, having sent an embassy, he asks for terms of peace.
 33Thus then every one of you who forsakes not all that is his own cannot be my disciple. (Luke 14:26‑33)
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Acts 7:2‑6• 2And he said, Brethren and fathers, hearken. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,
 3and said to him, Go out of thy land and out of thy kindred, and come into the land which I will shew thee.
 4Then going out of the land of the Chaldeans he dwelt in Charran, and thence, after his father died, he removed him into this land in which *ye* now dwell.
 5And he did not give him an inheritance in it, not even what his foot could stand on; and promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he had no child.
 6And God spoke thus: His seed shall be a sojourner in a strange land, and they shall enslave them and evil entreat them four hundred years; (Acts 7:2‑6)
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2 Cor. 6:17• 17Wherefore come out from the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and touch not what is unclean, and *I* will receive you; (2 Cor. 6:17)
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Heb. 11:8• 8By faith Abraham, being called, obeyed to go out into the place which he was to receive for an inheritance, and went out, not knowing where he was going. (Heb. 11:8)
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Rev. 18:4• 4And I heard another voice out of the heaven saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye have not fellowship in her sins, and that ye do not receive of her plagues: (Rev. 18:4)
• God raises and lifts us up above all this evil, and by His calling introduces us into His own thoughts-thoughts far more precious than the restoration of what was fallen. He separates a people to hopes which suit the majesty and the love of Him who calls them, and places them in a position of proximity to Himself, which the blessing of the world under His government would never have given them. (“Genesis 10-11” by J.N. Darby)
• The significance of this subject in the Bible can be assessed by the fact that only a few chapters describe the creation of the worlds, while the rest of the Old Testament is largely dedicated to God’s dealings with this one man and his family. (“Forward” by H. Smith)
• For over four hundred years, God bore with this world. Then suddenly the God of glory appeared to a man on earth and commenced to act on an entirely new principle—that of the sovereign call of God. It does not set aside the government of the world; it makes no suggestion as to improving or reforming the world, or correcting its evil. It leaves the world just as it is, but it asserts God’s paramount claim on an individual, who is elected in sovereign grace, and called out of the world. (“On the Other Side of the River: Genesis 11:27-31” by H. Smith)
• In Acts 7, we learn that “The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia.” What distinguishes the call from every other call is this: it comes from God—the God of glory. Human civilization, with its cities and towers reaching up to heaven, has nothing that speaks of God, only that which exalts and displays the glory of man. “The God of glory” speaks of another world in which there is nothing of man’s self-aggrandizement but everything that displays the character of God. (“The Call of God: Genesis 11:31-12:3” by H. Smith)
• He is called to come out of it in every form. He is to leave the political world “thy country;” the social world— “thy kindred,” and the domestic world “thy father’s house.” (“The Call of God: Genesis 11:31-12:3” by H. Smith)
• Thirdly, if the call of God separated Abraham from this present world, it is in view of bringing into another world “a land,” God said, “that I will show thee.” If the God of glory appeared to Abraham, it was in order to bring Abraham into the glory of God. Thus the wonderful address of Stephen (Acts 7) that commences with the God of glory appearing to a man on earth (v. 2), ends with a Man appearing in the glory of God in heaven (v. 55). (“The Call of God: Genesis 11:31-12:3” by H. Smith)
• God does not say to Abraham, “If you answer to the call, I will immediately give you possession of the land.” But He says, “I will show thee the land.” If we answer His call, God allows us, along with Stephen, to “see the King in His beauty” and the land that is very far off (“of far distances,” Isa. 33:17). We look up and see Christ in glory. (“The Call of God: Genesis 11:31-12:3” by H. Smith)
• The first portion of Abraham’s life presented his public testimony as a man of faith walking in separation from the world, in answer to the call of God (chs. 12-14). (“The Offering Up of Isaac: Genesis 22” by H. Smith)
• In chapter 22, we see a type of the death and resurrection of Christ—the Lamb of God’s providing. In chapter 23, the death and burial of Sarah sets forth in type the setting aside of Israel, the earthly bride, in consequence of the rejection of Christ. In chapter 24, while Israel was set aside, we have the calling out of the Church—the heavenly bride, set forth in Rebekah. (“The Offering Up of Isaac: Genesis 22” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Jehovah had said to Abram, Go out of thy land, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, to the land that I will shew thee.

W. Kelly Translation

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Now Jehovah had said to Abram, Geta thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will show thee.

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