Verse
Genesis 12:3 — And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth…
“And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.”
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The verses around Genesis 12:3.
1Now 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:
2And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
4So 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.
5And 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.
Verse explanation
The promise that “all families of the earth” would be blessed because of Abram is the starting point of an idea that runs through the rest of the Bible: that choosing one specific family would, in the end, serve to benefit everyone, not just that family. It’s a broad promise, and scholars themselves read its exact scope in different ways.
From the Genesis 12 study in Bible in Stories.
Genesis 12:3 in other versions
The same verse in the 4 Bible versions we have on the site.
- KJV · King James
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Read the chapter in this version → - ARC · Almeida 1911Português
E abençoarei os que te abençoarem, e amaldiçoarei os que te amaldiçoarem; e em ti serão bemditas todas as familias da terra.
Read the chapter in this version → - BLIVRE · Bíblia LivrePortuguês
E abençoarei os que te abençoarem, e amaldiçoarei os que te amaldiçoarem; e em ti todas as famílias da terra serão benditas.
Read the chapter in this version → - VBL · Versión Biblia LibreEspañol
Bendeciré a los que te bendigan, y maldeciré a los que te maldigan. Todos en la tierra serán benditos a través de ti”.
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In other languages: Português (Gênesis 12:3) · Español (Génesis 12:3)
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