And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of thy father’s house, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.
Ibn Ezra
“Lech Lecha (Go forth)” - God already commanded Abraham, when they were still in Ur Kasdim, to leave his land and country and birthplace and the house of his father. And the reason is that God knew that Terach, after he went to go to the Land of Canaan, would stay in Haran. And Terach did not die until 60 years after Abraham left his house in Haran. But the Torah did not detail all the years after he left Ur Kasdim. And after it says, “that I will show you,” He revealed to him the secret. That’s why it says, in Chapter 11, “They went out to go to the Land of Canaan. Or, the reason it says "I will show you" is that He is saying, "All the land that you can see, I will give you."
Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.