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Abram Leaves Ur and Haran

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 13, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 2.

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Abram Leaves Ur and Haran

COMING out of Ur, Abram was accompanied by Terah, his father, Lot, his nephew, and Sarai, his wife. Gen. 11:31. It seems that Nahor had preceded them to Haran, and had built that city, for Haran was "the city of Nahor." Compare Gen. 24:10 with 27:43. Haran was on a tributary of the Euphrates, the Belichus, about seventy-five miles northeast of Carchemish. "And they came to Haran and dwelt there." "And Terah died in Haran." And after his father died, Abram, in obedience to the call which the Lord had given him in Ur, went on to the land which should be shown him. "So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him; and Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran."