Abram continually journeyed by stages down to the Negev.

When birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.

Abram bowed down with his face to the ground, and God said to him,

When Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Abram traveled through the land as far as the oak tree of Moreh at Shechem. (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)

There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to stay for a while because the famine was severe.

When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

So Abram went up from Egypt into the Negev. He took his wife and all his possessions with him, as well as Lot.

This was the place where he had first built the altar, and there Abram worshiped the Lord.

Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks, herds, and tents.

Abram settled in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled among the cities of the Jordan plain and pitched his tents next to Sodom.

So Abram moved his tents and went to live by the oaks of Mamre in Hebron, and he built an altar to the Lord there.

They also took Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions when they left, for Lot was living in Sodom.

He blessed Abram, saying, “Blessed be Abram by the Most High God, Creator of heaven and earth.

Then the king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people and take the possessions for yourself.”

Abram added, “Since you have not given me a descendant, then look, one born in my house will be my heir!”

Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not given birth to any children, but she had an Egyptian servant named Hagar.

So Hagar gave birth to Abram’s son, whom Abram named Ishmael.

And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah.

Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (the son of Haran), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and with them he set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. When they came to Haran, they settled there.