The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household  to the land  I will show you. “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. I will bless those who bless you,      and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth      will be blessed through you. ” 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. 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. Genesis 12: 1-4, 7 I n Genesis 12:2-3, God made a covenant with Abraham that continued far beyond this patriarch’s lifetime.  The  covenant  with Abraham included the following promises: multiple descendants, fame, divine protection and that Abraham through his descendants would be a blessing to all people.  &