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God told him, ‘Leave your native land and your relatives, and come into the land that I will show you.’[a] So Abraham left the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran until his father died. Then God brought him here to the land where you now live.

“But God gave him no inheritance here, not even one square foot of land. God did promise, however, that eventually the whole land would belong to Abraham and his descendants—even though he had no children yet.

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Footnotes

  1. 7:3 Gen 12:1.

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