The name given in the verse is Abram, and he is the very same person who was afterward called Abraham. The chapter in which it stands traces the origin of peoples and their distribution into races. Lists of that genealogical kind belong to the inspired contents of the Bible. Their accurate preservation was necessary to the development of the gospel and to certainty concerning it, so the inclusion of this genealogy in Scripture is deliberate and purposeful.
The name given in the verse is Abram, and he is the very same person who was afterward called Abraham. The chapter in which it stands traces the origin of peoples and their distribution into races. Lists of that genealogical kind belong to the inspired contents of the Bible. Their accurate preservation was necessary to the development of the gospel and to certainty concerning it, so the inclusion of this genealogy in Scripture is deliberate and purposeful.