12:1 耶和華對亞伯蘭說：「你要離開本地、本族、父家，往我所要指示你的地去。
12:2 我必叫你成為大國。我必賜福給你，叫你的名為大；你也要叫別人得福。
12:3 為你祝福的，我必賜福與他；那咒詛你的，我必咒詛他。地上的萬族都要因你得福。」
12:4 亞伯蘭就照著耶和華的吩咐去了；羅得也和他同去。亞伯蘭出哈蘭的時候年七十五歲。
12:5 亞伯蘭將他妻子撒萊和姪兒羅得，連他們在哈蘭所積蓄的財物、所得的人口，都帶往迦南地去。他們就到了迦南地。
12:6 亞伯蘭經過那地，到了示劍地方、摩利橡樹那裡。那時迦南人住在那地。
12:7 耶和華向亞伯蘭顯現，說：「我要把這地賜給你的後裔。」亞伯蘭就在那裡為向他顯現的耶和華築了一座壇。
12:8 從那裡他又遷到伯特利東邊的山，支搭帳棚；西邊是伯特利，東邊是艾。他在那裡又為耶和華築了一座壇，求告耶和華的名。
12:9 後來亞伯蘭又漸漸遷往南地去。
12:2 我必叫你成為大國。我必賜福給你，叫你的名為大；你也要叫別人得福。
12:3 為你祝福的，我必賜福與他；那咒詛你的，我必咒詛他。地上的萬族都要因你得福。」
12:4 亞伯蘭就照著耶和華的吩咐去了；羅得也和他同去。亞伯蘭出哈蘭的時候年七十五歲。
12:5 亞伯蘭將他妻子撒萊和姪兒羅得，連他們在哈蘭所積蓄的財物、所得的人口，都帶往迦南地去。他們就到了迦南地。
12:6 亞伯蘭經過那地，到了示劍地方、摩利橡樹那裡。那時迦南人住在那地。
12:7 耶和華向亞伯蘭顯現，說：「我要把這地賜給你的後裔。」亞伯蘭就在那裡為向他顯現的耶和華築了一座壇。
12:8 從那裡他又遷到伯特利東邊的山，支搭帳棚；西邊是伯特利，東邊是艾。他在那裡又為耶和華築了一座壇，求告耶和華的名。
12:9 後來亞伯蘭又漸漸遷往南地去。
The Lord 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]
3 I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.”[b]
and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.[a]
3 I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.”[b]
4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years
old when he set out from Harran. 5 He 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.
6 Abram 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. 7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring[c] I will give this land.” So he built an
altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.8 From 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 the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.
9 Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.
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亞伯拉罕的原名是亞伯蘭，受到上帝的呼召就離開第二個家鄉哈蘭，這是他父親從吾珥遷過去的，不是他原本的家鄉。因為他的父親有離開吾珥向迦南的規劃，但是實現是因為上帝的呼召，他才舉迦去迦南地。
然而他到迦南地卻成了異鄉人，更是流浪者，因為他在那裏沒有土地，沒有他的產業，只能東奔西走，只能暫時歇息。但是上帝卻向他顯現，宣告：「我要把這地賜給你的後裔」。因此，以色列人相信迦南地是上帝給他們的應許之地。
然而上帝呼召亞伯拉罕的目地是什麼呢？就是要使地上的萬族因他得福！這得福有得興盛的意思，因為人要靠上帝才會有豐盛的生命。而亞伯蘭的名字有被高舉的意思，也就是說被上帝高舉，這也代表每一位信靠上帝的人，要被上帝高舉得意思。
然而上帝高舉人，是透過耶穌基督的救贖，所以亞伯蘭是預表基督，是上帝要透過他來建立永遠的救恩，也因為如此在《馬太福音》的基督的家譜是由亞伯拉罕開始，在肉身部分他是耶穌基督的「義父」約瑟的祖先，也就是耶穌基督的祖先，耶穌基督就成了他應許的子孫！
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