Bible Verses About Abram

This collection includes 51 passages about Abram. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

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Reading context: Read the call and journey in the whole chapter, including the later events in Egypt.

Scripture Passages

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And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

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Reading context: The statement about belief occurs in the conversation and covenant account of Genesis 15.

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Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

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Reading context: This verse contains both Abram and Abraham as it gives the name change.

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And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 11 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 11 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 11 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 11 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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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.

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 12 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 12 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 12 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto him.

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 12 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 12 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 12 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 12 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 12 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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And the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram’s wife.

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 12 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 12 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 13 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 13 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the Lord.

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 13 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 13 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 13 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 13 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 13 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 13 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the Lord.

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 13 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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And they took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 14 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram.

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 14 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 14 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 14 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 14 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the Lord, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 14 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 14 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 15 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 15 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 15 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 15 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 15 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 15 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 15 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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Now Sarai Abram’s wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

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Reading context: This verse explicitly names Abram. Read all of Genesis 16 to distinguish narrative, quoted speech and later reflection.

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This collection includes all 50 English KJV verses explicitly using Abram, plus Genesis 15:6, the response within the covenant conversation. The scope is disclosed rather than treating a pronoun as an exact name match. Genesis 12–17 supplies the earlier narrative and the change to Abraham; the Abraham collection continues with the later name. This is not every passage about the person.

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