“Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.”
Genesis 12:1
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- The Call of Abram: The Word He Left Everything For (Genesis 12)
What does the command lech-lecha mean?
The verb is halak (H1980), to walk or go, in a doubled form, lech-lecha, that presses the command on Abram himself: go, and go now. God names three losses, each dearer than the last: country, kindred (moledet) and father's house (beth av). The destination is left blank, and the only thing holding the command up is the God who spoke it.
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Asked if she would go to marry Isaac, Rebekah answered with one Hebrew word, elekh, I will go. It comes from the verb God used here when He told Abram to go. Two generations on, a young woman in the same family heard what the LORD had done and answered with the same verb.
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Leave your country — Stephen's speech recounts Abraham's call
“and told him, ‘Leave your country and your kindred and go to the land I will show you.’”
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