Abraham leaves Ur to go to Canaan—Jehovah appears to him at Haran—All gospel blessings are promised to his seed, and through his seed to all—He goes to Canaan, and on to Egypt.

 NOW the Lord God caused the ^afamine^• to wax sore in the land of Ur, insomuch that ^bHaran^•, my brother, died; but ^cTerah^•, my father, yet lived in the land of Ur, of the Chaldees.

 And it came to pass that I, Abraham, took ^aSarai^• to wife, and ^bNahor^•, my brother, took Milcah to wife, who was the ^cdaughter^• of Haran.

 Now the Lord had ^asaid^• unto me: Abraham, get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will show thee.

 Therefore I left the land of ^aUr^•, of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and I took Lot, my brother’s son, and his wife, and Sarai my wife; and also my ^bfather^• followed after me, unto the land which we denominated Haran.

 And the famine abated; and my father tarried in Haran and dwelt there, as there were many flocks in Haran; and my father turned again unto his ^aidolatry^•, therefore he continued in Haran.

 But I, Abraham, and Lot, my brother’s son, prayed unto the Lord, and the Lord ^aappeared^• unto me, and said unto me: Arise, and take Lot with thee; for I have purposed to take thee away out of Haran, and to make of thee a ^bminister to bear my ^cname^• in a strange ^dland^• which I will give unto thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession, when they hearken to my voice.

 For I am the Lord thy God; I dwell in ^aheaven^•; the earth is my ^bfootstool^•; I stretch my hand over the sea, and it obeys my voice; I cause the wind and the fire to be my ^cchariot^•; I say to the mountains—Depart hence—and behold, they are taken away by a whirlwind, in an instant, suddenly.

 My ^aname^• is Jehovah, and I ^bknow the end from the beginning; therefore my hand shall be over thee.

 And I will make of thee a great ^anation^•, and I will ^bbless^• thee above measure, and make thy name great among all nations, and thou shalt be a blessing unto thy seed after thee, that in their hands they shall bear this ministry and ^cPriesthood^• unto all nations;

 And I will ^abless them through thy name; for as many as receive this ^bGospel^• shall be called after thy ^cname^•, and shall be accounted thy ^dseed^•, and shall rise up and bless thee, as their ^efather;

 And I will ^abless them that bless thee, and ^bcurse them that curse thee; and in thee (that is, in thy Priesthood) and in thy ^cseed^• (that is, thy Priesthood), for I give unto thee a promise that this ^dright shall continue in thee, and in thy seed after thee (that is to say, the literal seed, or the seed of the body) shall all the families of the earth be blessed, even with the blessings of the Gospel, which are the blessings of salvation, even of life eternal.

 Now, after the Lord had withdrawn from speaking to me, and withdrawn his face from me, I said in my heart: Thy servant has ^asought^• thee earnestly; now I have found thee;

 Thou didst send thine angel to ^adeliver^• me from the gods of Elkenah, and I will do well to hearken unto thy voice, therefore let thy servant rise up and depart in peace.

 So I, Abraham, departed as the Lord had said unto me, and Lot with me; and I, Abraham, was ^asixty^• and two years old when I departed out of Haran.

 And I took Sarai, whom I took to wife when I was in Ur, in Chaldea, and Lot, my brother’s son, and all our substance that we had gathered, and the souls that we had ^awon^• in Haran, and came forth in the way to the land of Canaan, and dwelt in tents as we came on our way;

 Therefore, ^aeternity was our covering and our ^brock and our salvation, as we journeyed from Haran by the way of ^cJershon^•, to come to the land of Canaan.

 Now I, Abraham, built an ^aaltar^• in the land of Jershon, and made an offering unto the Lord, and prayed that the ^bfamine^• might be turned away from my father’s house, that they might not perish.

 And then we passed from Jershon through the land unto the place of Sechem; it was situated in the plains of Moreh, and we had already come into the borders of the land of the ^aCanaanites^•, and I offered ^bsacrifice there in the plains of Moreh, and called on the Lord devoutly, because we had already come into the land of this idolatrous nation.

 And the Lord ^aappeared^• unto me in answer to my prayers, and said unto me: Unto thy seed will I give this ^bland^•.

 And I, Abraham, arose from the place of the altar which I had built unto the Lord, and removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of ^aBethel^•, and pitched my tent there, Bethel on the west, and ^bHai^• on the east; and there I built another ^caltar^• unto the Lord, and ^dcalled^• again upon the name of the Lord.

 And I, Abraham, journeyed, going on still towards the south; and there was a continuation of a famine in the land; and I, Abraham, concluded to go down into Egypt, to sojourn there, for the famine became very grievous.

 And it came to pass when I was come near to enter into Egypt, the Lord ^asaid^• unto me: Behold, Sarai, thy wife, is a very fair woman to look upon;

 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see her, they will say—She is his wife; and they will kill you, but they will save her alive; therefore see that ye do on this wise:

 Let her say unto the Egyptians, she is thy sister, and thy soul shall live.

 And it came to pass that I, Abraham, told Sarai, my wife, all that the Lord had said unto me—Therefore say unto them, I pray thee, thou art my ^asister^•, that it may be well with me for thy sake, and my soul shall live because of thee.