seekeroftruth
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Genesis 12:1 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.
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.”
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 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.
I read the commentary found at this link before writing below.Now Canaan was Ham's son. Ham was the one Noah cursed. Canaan moved his people to the area known as Canaan.
Abram was a descendant of Shem. Shem was Noah's son and brother of Ham and Japheth. Shem was the father of the Jews.
God told Abram that Abram had to take his family and go to Canaan's property... and yep, Canaan's people were still living on the land.
Abram took his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot. Lot's father died and Lot had been taken in by Abram's family. Maybe they adopted Lot because Sarai and Abram didn't have children of their own.
Abram went... without question.
