Genesis 12:4

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.”

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BSBPD

“So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“So Abram went, as Jehovah had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And Abram goeth on, as Jehovah hath spoken unto him, and Lot goeth with him, and Abram <FI>is<Fi> a son of five and seventy years in his going out from Charan.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Genesis 12:4 — 4 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 11:27This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.
  2. Genesis 11:31And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.
  3. Genesis 13:5Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.
  4. Hebrews 11:8By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.

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