Genesis 12:4
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.
KJV
Egressus est itaque Abram sicut præceperat ei Dominus, et ivit cum eo Lot : septuaginta quinque annorum erat Abram cum egrederetur de Haran.
Vulgate
καὶ ἐπορεύθη Ἀβρὰμ καθάπερ ἐλάλησεν αὐτῷ Κύριος, καὶ ᾤχετο μετ’ αὐτοῦ Λώτ· Ἀβρὰμ δὲ ἦν ἐτῶν ἑβδομήκοντα πέντε ὅτε ἐξῆλθεν ἐκ Χαρράν.
LXX
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.
ASV
וַ/יֵּ֣לֶךְ אַבְרָ֗ם כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֨ר דִּבֶּ֤ר אֵלָי/ו֙ יְהוָ֔ה וַ/יֵּ֥לֶךְ אִתּ֖/וֹ ל֑וֹט וְ/אַבְרָ֗ם בֶּן חָמֵ֤שׁ שָׁנִים֙ וְ/שִׁבְעִ֣ים שָׁנָ֔ה בְּ/צֵאת֖/וֹ מֵ/חָרָֽן
Hebrew
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8 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§145The Letter to the Hebrews, in its great eulogy of the faith of Israel's ancestors, lays special emphasis on Abraham's faith: "By faith, Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place which he was to receive as an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was to go."4 By faith, he lived as a stranger and pilgrim in the promised land.5 By faith, Sarah was given t…
§2570When God calls him, Abraham goes forth "as the Lord had told him";8 Abraham's heart is entirely submissive to the Word and so he obeys. Such attentiveness of the heart, whose decisions are made according to God's will, is essential to prayer, while the words used count only in relation to it. Abraham's prayer is expressed first by deeds: a man of silence, he constructs an altar…
Chapter 15.—Of the Time of the Migration of Abraham, When, According to the Commandment of God, He Went Out from Haran. When, after the record of the death of Terah, the father of Abraham, we next read, “And the Lord said to Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house,”894894 Gen. xii. 1. etc., it is not to be supposed, because this fol…
Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country. The call of Abram is the beginning of the visible Church as a separated people. God's promise that in Abram all families of the earth would be blessed is the great gospel promise, which finds its fulfillment in Christ. Abraham's obedience, leaving his country by faith, is commended by the apostle as the pattern of a…
Cross-references
- Acts 7:4 — Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.
- Gen 11:26 — And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
- Gen 11:27 — Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
- Gen 11:27 — Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
- Gen 11:31 — And 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 with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of
- Gen 11:31 — And 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 with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of
- Gen 16:3 — And Sarai Abram’s wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
- Gen 25:7 — And these are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
- Gen 26:5 — Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
- Heb 11:8 — By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.