MASS READINGS, MONDAY, JUNE 21, 2021, General Week 12 FIRST READING "Abram went away, as the Lord had told him" A Reading from the book of Genesis (12, 1-9)

MASS READINGS, MONDAY, JUNE 21, 2021, General Week 12 

FIRST READING 

"Abram went away, as the Lord had told him" 

A Reading from the book of Genesis (12, 1-9) 

In those days the Lord said to Abram, then living in Chaldea, "Leave your land, your kinship, and your father's house, and go to the land that I will show you." I will make you a great nation, I will bless you, I will make your name great, and you will become a blessing. I will bless those who bless you; whoever curses you, I will reprove him. In you will be blessed all the families of the earth. Abram went away, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was 75 when he left Harane. He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the goods they had acquired, and the people with whom they had surrounded themselves in Haran; they set out for Canaan and they came to this land. Abram crossed the country to a place called Shechem, at the Oak of Moreh. The Canaanites were in the land then. The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land. And there Abram built an altar to the Lord who had appeared to him. From there he went into the mountain east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having 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. Then, from camp to camp, Abram went to the Negev.  

- Word of the Lord.

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