Abram came into Canaan

Abram came into Canaan

1YHVH had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.

2“I will make you into a great nation,

and I will bless you;

I will make your name great,

and you will be a blessing. a

3I will bless those who bless you,

and whoever curses you I will curse;

and all peoples on earth

will be blessed through you.” b

4So Abram went, as YHVH had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran. 5He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.

6Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. 7YHVH appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspringc I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to YHVH, who had appeared to him.

8From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to YHVH and called on the name of YHVH.

Genesis 12:1-8

 

430 years before Exodus out of Egypt (Exodus 12:40-41)

Antiquities of the Jews [Chapter XV:2] Josephus

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