Bible Strands
Genesis 12:4
So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The text is a narrative record of Abram's departure from Haran at age seventy-five, noting Lot's presence as Abram acts on a prior divine directive.
The words — וַיֵּלֶךְ (va.Ye.lekh) translates "and he went," coupled with כַּאֲשֶׁר דִּבֶּר (ka'asher dibber) meaning "just as he had said," which anchors Abram's movement to the LORD's specific instruction.
The thread — This event follows the Terah genealogy in Genesis 11:27 and 11:31 and is later cited in Hebrews 11:8 as the moment Abram obeyed a call to an unknown inheritance.
Why it lands — The passage requires noting Abram's concrete compliance and demographic details without importing external motives, leaving the theological weight to the recorded action itself.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- Hebrews 11:8 By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.
- Genesis 11:31 And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.
- Genesis 11:27 This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.