There is a dispute about that too, if we take into account the Samaritan Pentateuch we accept a version that states that Terah only lived 145 years. We have already seen that Abram was seventy-five years of age at the death of Terah. l. 1. v. 105. "And Terah died in Haran." How utterly irreconcilable this fact is with the opinion that the Angel of Jehovah was a created angel, is conclusively proved by Revelation 22:9, which is generally regarded as perfectly corresponding to the account of the "Angel of Jehovah" of the Old Testament. In the land of Uz, a Shemite, perhaps even at a later period, lived Job; and in the neighboring districts of Arabia were his several friends, all of whom acknowledged the true God. Even to Noah He revealed Himself before the flood as one who was present on the earth. The land, as we have already said, is implied in verse 1. Life Span. 135 Haran, for example, in Assyrian (harranu) meant main road. Waltke, class notes, p. 14. Real blessing does not come from toil and agonizing hours of labor, but from the fruit of intimacy, namely children. Thanks for contributing an answer to Biblical Hermeneutics Stack Exchange! As a perfectly new beginning, therefore, the patriarchal history assumed the form of a family history, in which the grace of God prepared the ground for the coming Israel. Terah, it seems, decided to stay in the northern Mesopotamian "city of Haran," (no connection with his son Haran) rather than continue the journey to Canaan, which was the family's original intent. God is not nearly so concerned with geography as He is with godliness. Stephen informs us in Acts 7:2 Brothers and fathers, listen to me. He believes that the land is thus divided into three regions: one extending from the northern border to Shechem, the second from Shechem as far as Bethel, and the third from Bethel to the southern boundary.136. Genesis 11:26-32 tells that Terah was a son of Nahor, the son of Serug, who was a descendant of Shem. A look at a map of the ancient world of patriarchal times would indicate that Abram traveled the well-trodden roads of his day.135 This route was that commonly traveled by those who engaged in the commerce of those days. Terah is the one who told the people to leave Ur Kasdim in the book of Genesis, not Abram. That is my query, Hi Carel, welcome to the BH site. Then, when Terah returned, saw the mess, and asked Abe what had happened. 3: Genesis 12:1 is the Bible's record of the second time that God tells Abe to leave his father's household. 10. sect. It will be observed, also, that we have set down seventy opposite Abram as the date of his call, from which is counted the definite period of four hundred and thirty years to the exodus. In Galatians chapter 3 Paul wrote that Christians are the sons of Abraham by faith, and therefore, rightful heirs to the blessings promised him (Galatians 3:7,9). Get our Question of the Week delivered right to your inbox! If so, when God spoke to Abraham, Abraham would remember that God had spoken to his father, Terah, which would make it more imperative for Abraham. in relation to Terah's genealogy, Abram's family in relation to Terah's death, the form of the 'calling' verb, the country Abram departed from, and the narrative art of the literary piece. The appearances of the angel of Jehovah (or Elohim) cannot have been essentially different from those of Jehovah (or Elohim) Himself; for Jacob describes the appearances of Jehovah at Bethel (Genesis 28:13.) l. 5. c. 18. It grows through time and through testing. The second promise of the Abrahamic Covenant was that of a great nation coming from Abram. Rather than thinking of a new land and a new life, most of us would have been thinking in terms of a rocking chair and a rest home. Our glorious God appeared to our ancestor Abraham in Mesopotamia before he settled in Haran. Shem had converted Abe. Chapter 12 begins a new division in the book of Genesis. And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there. Hence, also, Abram lingers in Haran, waiting to take his father with him to the land of promise, if he should revive so far as to be fit for the journey. But it was not the lot of Terah to enter the land, where he would only have been a stranger. James referred to Abraham as a man who demonstrated his faith to men by his works (James 2:21-23). Abe replied something like, "I saw that remaining idol in the corner smash all the others. He left Haran, not because it was the easiest thing to do, but because God intended for him to do it. Abrams early history is partly that of his gradual disentanglement from country, kindred and fathers house, a process not completed until the end of chapter 13. Derek Kidner, Genesis (Chicago: InterVarsity Press, 1967), p. 113. It's A Mystery Until This Day Terah turned north of his route to Canaan. So, according to that oral history, Abe one day waited for Terah to go out of Terah's idol-making shop, and then Abe smashed all the idols except the biggest one that stood prominently in the corner of the shop. They lived in a city called Ur . Hist. Although listed first among the three sons of Terah, at Genesis 11:26, Abraham was not the firstborn. There are many speculations on why Terah took his family, left the Ur of the Chaldeans and headed for Canaan. Abrams life is a growth in faith developed under delayed fulfillment of divine promises. Genesis - NIV Application Commentary by John Walton. Terah started out well (11:31), journeyed about four months, probably stopped at Babylon and then did something very strange. Learn more about Stack Overflow the company, and our products. as an appearance of "the angel of Elohim," and of "the God of Bethel" (Genesis 31:11, Genesis 31:13); and in his blessing on the sons of Joseph (Genesis 48:15-16), "The God (Elohim) before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God (Elohim) which fed me all my life long unto this day, the angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads," he places the angel of God on a perfect equality with God, not only regarding Him as the Being to whom he has been indebted for protection all his life long, but entreating from Him a blessing upon his descendants. Having called Abram, it was God Who providentially brought Abram to the point of leaving home and homeland and entering Canaan. For neither in the New Testament nor in the Alex. are patent descriptions/images in public domain? God said it, and that settles it, whether you believe it or not. I like that. He must leave his country, his relatives, and his fathers house. As Stephen stood before his unbelieving Jewish brethren, he recounted the history of Gods chosen people, beginning with the call of Abraham: And he said, Hear me, brethren and fathers! For some reason, Terah and his family stopped short of Canaan, and remained in Haran. Genesis 11:31 tells us that Ter'ah took Abraham, Lot, and Sarai, and began the journey to Canaan, perhaps out of grief for the loss of his son Haran, but certainly before the call on Abraham. 2: In Acts 7, verses 2 thru 4, Stephen states that God had called Abe prior to when the group had settled in the town called Haran. If His Word is not true and reliable, then we, of all men, are most miserable.. 5: The fact that Genesis 11:10-31 is the record made by Shem. Terah, Jewish literature records, was a craftsman who made idols. Ur was in the southern part of Mesopotamia, and was the starting point for Abraham's journey to Canaan. Twenty years? (5) The Christian walk is simply doing what God has told us to do and believing that He is leading us as we do so. God told Abram to leave without knowing where the path of obedience would lead, but believing that God was leading as he went. In this life we cannot expect to fully possess what lies in the future, but only to survey it. The heroes of the Bible are men with like passions (James 5:17) and feet of clay. Isaac also was strong in patience and hope; and Jacob wrestled in faith amidst painful circumstances of various kinds, until he had secured the blessing of the promise. The New Testament in no way diminishes the significance of the life and character of Abraham. This is knowable to us by putting together five sources: 1: The very few Biblical references to the idolatry that Terah's household had practiced (ex: Joshua 24:2; Genesis 31:53b). This seems to be upheld by Scripture: "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'Long ago your ancestors, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates River and served other gods'" (Josh 24:2). Prayerful conversation with the true and living God, also, while it was fast waning in the land of the Kasdim, seems to have been still maintained in its ancient purity in some parts of the land of Kenaan and the adjacent countries. But here are a few possibilities. Historians share that the father of Serug was Reu. To our knowledge, he had no particular spiritual qualities which drew God to him. The Chaldeans, no longer in existence,. More insights from your Bible study - Get Started with Logos Bible Software for Free! Much of Abrams blessing was to come in the form of his offspring, but there was also the blessing that would come in the form of the Messiah, who would bring salvation to Gods people. We must confine ourselves to the passages in which "the Angel of Jehovah" is actually referred to. Terah may have told Abraham why he was leaving Ur and why he decided to settle in Haran. "Now these are the generations of Terah. ), which were repeated throughout the whole of the Old Testament, and even occurred, though only in vision, in the case of the prophet Zechariah. Do what God tells you to do in the most sensible way you know how. God commanded Terah to leave Ur of Chaldees for the land of Canaan in Genesis 11:31. b. 4 So 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. . The writer to the Hebrews pointed to Abraham as an illustration of a man who walked by faith, devoting more space to him than any other individual in chapter eleven (Hebrews 11:8-19). Such will be the case as we can look back upon our lives from the vantage point of time. The dispersion of the descendants of the sons of Noah, who had now grown into numerous families, was necessarily followed on the one hand by the rise of a variety of nations, differing in language, manners, and customs, and more and more estranged from one another; and on the other by the expansion of the germs of idolatry, contained in the different attitudes of these nations towards God, into the polytheistic religions of heathenism, in which the glory of the immortal God was changed into an image made like to mortal man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things (Romans 1:23 cf. In the triple number of the patriarchs, the divine election of the nation on the one hand, and the entire formation of the character and guidance of the life of Israel on the other, were to attain to their fullest typical manifestation. I hope that's helpful Clive. 4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell. Once in the land of Canaan, the route taken by Abram is noteworthy. The report of this comparatively favorable state of things in the land of Kenaan would be an additional incentive to the newly enlightened family of Terah to accompany Abram in obedience to the divine call. It was not in Haran, as a casual reading of Genesis 12 might incline us to believe, but in Ur. I would have assumed that Terah was a God-fearing man, who brought up his son, Abram, to believe in only one God, unlike the people of his day, but this was not so. Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers. In fact, there was a workshop in Terah's house, where idols of wood, stone, silver and gold were made. Barnes' Notes on the Bible And Terah took Abram. (3) The Christians walk is a pilgrimage. At the time of the call, Abram did not know where this land was. So Terah had two reasons to leave the city of Ur of the Chaldees. The lesson we may need to learn is this: very often the way God would have us go is the most sensible way that we would have chosen anyhow. 129 Cyrus Gordon has suggested that the true Ur of Genesis 11:31 is to be found in northern Mesopotamia, probably northeast of Haran. Why do scholars think Abraham came from Ur in Mesopotamia? Ur was a large and prosperous city-state in Mesopotamia (present-day southern Iraq). Well, it was written in Genesis that his birth name was Abram, before God changed his name to Abraham, and that he was the son of Terah. That is my kind of hero. The answer is because God told him to (Genesis ch.12). David saw Him by the threshing-floor of Araunah, standing between heaven and earth, with the sword drawn in His hand and stretched out over Jerusalem (1 Chronicles 21:16); and He appeared to Zechariah in a vision as a rider upon a red horse (Zechariah 1:9.). Joshua gives us helpful insight into the character of Terah in his farewell speech at the end of his life: And Joshua said to all the people, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, From ancient times your fathers lived beyond the River, namely, Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, and they served other gods (Joshua 24:2). 58-64. There may well have been political or economic factors which made such a move expedient, apart from any spiritual considerations. 1. Though proceeding by easy stages, the aged patriarch seems to have been exhausted by the length and the difficulty of the way. What a thrill that must have been for the people of Moses day to read this promise and realize that the time for possession had come. 63-64. God called him to leave that city and to exchange his townhouse for a tent. In the first place, the Angel of God identifies Himself with Jehovah and Elohim, by attributing to Himself divine attributes and performing divine works: e.g., Genesis 22:12, "Now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me" (i.e., hast been willing to offer him up as a burnt sacrifice to God); again (to Hagar) Genesis 16:10, "I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude;" Genesis 21, "I will make him a great nation,"-the very words used by Elohim in Genesis 17:20 with reference to Ishmael, and by Jehovah in Genesis 13:16; Genesis 15:4-5, with regard to Isaac; also Exodus 3:6., "I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob: I have surely seen the affliction of My people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry, and I am come down to deliver them" (cf. He simply wrote, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out. Let us remember that Abram did go to Canaan, just as Moses went to Egypt, but not without considerable pressure from God. Abram was secure and comfortable in Ur, a great city. Hence the new form which the divine guidance of the human race assumed in the call of Abram was connected with the general development of the world, - in the one hand, by the fact that Abram belonged to the family of Shem, which Jehovah had blessed, and on the other, by his not being called alone, but as a married man with his wife. Stephen clarifies the time that Abram was first called of God. There are nearly 75 references to him in the New Testament. daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they He had twelve chief gods, one for each month of the year, and other idols. Gordons view is held by Harold G. Stiflers, A Commentary on Genesis (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1976), pp. This would be a slow, arduous and dangerous journey. - From these varying forms of appearance it is evident that the opinion that the Angel of the Lord was a real angel, a divine manifestation, "not in the disguise of angel, but through the actual appearance of an angel," is not in harmony with all the statements of the Bible. At both Shechem and Bethel he built altars, like Abram, his grandfather (33:20; 35:7). Beyond this, Abram was destined to become a blessing to men of every nation. Rauwolff, who was in this town A. D. 1575, calls it Orpha; his account of it is this (q), that it is a costly city, with a castle situated on the hill very pleasantly; that the town is very pleasant, pretty big, with fortifications well provided; and that some say it was anciently called Haran and Charras: a later traveller (r) says, who also calls it Orpha,"the air of this city is very healthful, and the country fruitful; that it is built four square, the west part standing on the side of a rocky mountain, and the east part tendeth into a spacious valley, replenished with vineyards, orchards, and gardens: the walls are very strong, furnished with great store of artillery, and contain in circuit three English miles, and, for the gallantness of its sight, it was once reckoned the metropolitical seat of Mesopotamia. - Terah takes the lead in this emigration, as the patriarch of the family. Those who first read the book of Genesis were about to take possession of the land which was promised Abram. Terah wanted to leave Ur because he was afraid a war would start. Terah was just too old, by that time, to actually make any life in Canaan, and might even have died from the long journey that would have been required to get all the way to Canaan. God providentially led Terah to pull up roots at Ur and to move toward Canaan (11:31). Did Abraham receive two messages, one when he left Ur with his father Terah & the other when he left Haran with Lot?. They followed the Euphrates River, with their herds, to the Paddan Aram region. But as soon as Abram had gone to Canaan, in obedience to the call of God, Jehovah appeared to him there (Genesis 12:7). Terah and his family had been chosen by God to establish His seed on earth. It is quite possible that God made the three promises to Abraham's father Terah first, but he failed the test by remaining in Haran. Why did God allow Lots daughters to later have sex with their father? That verse is not implying that God called Abe out of the blue, nor Abe at random of all persons. The Hebrew word for "served" can also mean to "work," hence the tradition that Terah was a craftsman who made idols. Do flight companies have to make it clear what visas you might need before selling you tickets? Had Abrams spiritual life depended solely upon his faithfulness, the story of Abram would have ended very quickly. It only takes a minute to sign up. Moses account of his initial steps of faith makes it evident that much was to be desired, and to be developed in him. God is not only sovereign in salvation, but sovereign in the process of sanctification. Hence, Abram is placed first in the list of Terah's sons, simply on account of his personal pre-eminence as the father of the faithful and the ancestor of the promised seed; he and his brother Nahor are both much younger than Haran, are married only after his death, and one of them to his grown-up daughter Milkah; and he and his nephew Lot are meet companions in age as well as in spirit. Lucan. But God had foretold that none need go with Abe except Abe's own household (which included his wife, and any 'employees' or 'servants' that Abe might have acquired). But does such a claim contradict the words of Scripture? In the year 1921 B.C. Is quantile regression a maximum likelihood method? Genesis 11:27-32 gives a genealogy leading up to Abram and Sarai, beginning with Terah, Abram's father. That first time, about which Stephen speaks, was God's way of at once (a) prophesying of Abe's eventual leaving his father's household, and (b) provoking Abe to evangelize his as-yet-still idolatrous father, Terah and, through Terah's conversion, to convert all of Terah's household. Abram died at the ripe old age of 175 (25:7-8), a much shorter time than Shem (11:10-11) or Arpachshad (11:12-13). The revelations consisted almost exclusively of promises; and so far as these promises were fulfilled in the lives of the patriarchs, the fulfilments themselves were predictions and pledges of the ultimate and complete fulfilment, reserved for a distant, or for the most remote futurity. Now Abram obeyed God by faith and entered into the land of Canaan, but only after considerable preparatory steps had been taken by God. So we know that Abraham told his father Terah to leave, because God appeared to Abraham, not Terah. Exodus 13:21. ), without any angelic form being visible in either case. Stephen calls it Charran it is by Herodian (l) called by Ptolemy (m) Carrae, by Pliny (n) Carra, a city famous in Lucan (o) for the slaughter of Crassus, by whom it is called an Assyrian city. It should first of all be said that it was the route we would have expected him to have taken if he were going in that direction. Nahor lived 119 years. But whilst, regarded in this light, the continuity of the divine revelation was guaranteed, as well as the plan of human development established in the creation itself, the call of Abram introduced so far the commencement of a new period, that to carry out the designs of God their very foundations required to be renewed. Terah took him out of Ur (Genesis ch.11). Acts 17:27). (o) -----------Miserando funere Crassus, Assyrias latio maculavit sanguine Carrhas. l. 4. sect. Can patents be featured/explained in a youtube video i.e. In the light of all the objections which might be raised by Abram, such an appearance should not be unusual. It is only when God wishes us to depart from the expected that we should look for guidance that is spectacular or unusual. Think of it. Terah didn't give a rip about what God wanted because he didn't know or love Him. This whole calculation exactly agrees with the incidental statement of Paul to the Galatians Gal 3:17 that the law was four hundred and thirty years after the covenant of promise. The early Church regarded Him as the Logos, the second person of the Deity; and only a few of the fathers, such as Augustine and Jerome, thought of a created angel (vid., Hengstenberg, Christol. Thirdly, the Angel of Jehovah is also identified with Jehovah by the sacred writers themselves, who call the Angel Jehovah without the least reserve (cf. to Harran, they settled there.(NIV). 128 S. Schultz, Abraham, The Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1975, 1976), I, p. 26. The force of these facts has been met by the assertion, that the ambassador perfectly represents the person of the sender; and evidence of this is adduced not only from Grecian literature, but from the Old Testament also, where the addresses of the prophets often glide imperceptibly into the words of Jehovah, whose instrument they are. Can a VGA monitor be connected to parallel port? There are, of course, evidences for the reasonableness of faith, but at the bottom line we simply must believe what God has said to us in His Word. He said in his comments on Genesis 12:7. The difference is important. (Antiqu. Who the messenger or angel of Jehovah was, must be determined in each particular instance from the connection of the passage; and where the context furnishes no criterion, it must remain undecided. Why did God punish Pharaoh for Abrams lie (Genesis 12:17)? So Terah was finally convinced to believe that Shem's advice was right. 5.) Context. Do you know that after Abram entered the land of Canaan it was another 25 years until he had his son, Isaac? Ed, Issue 46, Winter 2023. The giants of the faith seem to be sterling characters with no evident flaws, with machine-like discipline, and unfaltering faith. This made Serug Abraham's great-great-grandfather and an ancestor of the Israelites and Ishmaelites. We are, as I said before, never told why he packs it in in Ur and heads for Canaan. Did Abraham meet Jacob as alluded in Hebrews 11:9? Abe passed God's first personal test. But this important difference has been overlooked, that according to Greek usage, denotes an (any) angel of the Lord, whereas according to the rules of the Hebrew language means the angel of the Lord; that in the New Testament the angel who appears is always described as without the article, and the definite article is only introduced in the further course of the narrative to denote the angel whose appearance has been already mentioned, whereas in the Old Testament it is always "the Angel of Jehovah" who appears, and whenever the appearance of a created angel is referred to, he is introduced first of all as "an angel" (vid., 1 Kings 19:5 and 1 Kings 19:7). When he is commanded to sacrifice Isaac, he must obey with a willing heart of love, yet somehow see through to balance the command with the promise of the seed of a nation and leave the outcome to God and to find in God all sufficiency. John 14:1-3). This promise demanded faith on the part of Abram, for it was obvious that he was already aged, and that Sarai, his wife, was incapable of having children (11:30). What are some tools or methods I can purchase to trace a water leak? Although no direct evidence of Abrahams residence is available, it is significant that the city of Ur reflects a long history preceding Abrahams time, possessing an elaborate system of writing, educational facilities, mathematical calculations, business and religious records, and art. Vos, Genesis and Archaeology, pp. With the choice of Abram and revelation of God to man assumed a select character, inasmuch as God manifested Himself henceforth to Abram and his posterity alone as the author of salvation and the guide to true life; whilst other nations were left to follow their own course according to the powers conferred upon them, in order that they might learn that in their way, and without fellowship with the living God, it was impossible to find peace to the soul, and the true blessedness of life (cf. Abram did not even know where he would settle. Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. The mid-life crisis would have been past history for him. We have already mentioned the significance of Psalm 127 in relation to the efforts of man at Babel. 31 And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. Why did Terah want to leave Ur? These two were the pivots, upon which all the divine revelations made to the patriarchs, and all the guidance they received, were made to turn. The death of Haran, his oldest son, loosened his attachment to the land of his birth. Gordons view is discussed, but rejected by Howard F. Vos, Genesis and Archaeology (Chicago: Moody Press, 1963), pp. Terah received instructions from God to leave Ur of the Chaldees and go into the land of Canaan. We gather also that the Divine summons came to Abram in Ur (see Genesis 15:7; Nehemiah 9:7; Acts 7:2), but we learn in Genesis 12:1 that his final destination was not then definitely told him. Once, Terah needed to leave his store, and he appointed Abraham to sell the idols in his stead. I am saying that Abram obeyed God in faith, but it was a very little faith, and a very late faith. Additionally, we can conjecture that he was born sometime during the 20th century BCE and dwelt in the land of Ur, commonly referred to as Ur III by historians. Ultimately, the whole world was blessed by the coming of the Messiah, who came to save men of every nation, not just the Jews: Therefore, be sure that it is those who are of faith that are sons of Abraham. And lastly, it appeared still more manifestly in the twin sons born by Rebekah to Isaac, of whom the first-born, Esau, was rejected, and the younger, Jacob, chosen to be the heir of the promise; and this choice, which was announced before their birth, was maintained in spite of Isaac's plans, or that Jacob, and not Esau, received the blessing of the promise. God called him in Ur, but Abram did not leave his fathers house or his relatives. Haran.The Charran of Acts 7:4, that is, Carrhae in North-west Mesopotamia, about twenty geographical miles south-east of Edessa. While what was to be left behind was crystal clear, what lay ahead was distressingly devoid of detail: to the land which I will show you.. Do stay around and if you are willing to answer another questions, please read. How did Dominion legally obtain text messages from Fox News hosts? Terah traveled 150 miles out of his way. Terahs migration was partly perhaps a movement of a tribe of the Semites northwards (see Note on Genesis 11:28), made restless by the Elamites, who about this time overran Western Asia; but chiefly it had a religious motive: for Ur was the especial seat of the worship of the moon-god, Sin; and though Terah had not attained to the purity of Abrahams faith, yet neither was he altogether an idolater. Abram was a man like you and me. 131 The city of Ur on the lower Euphrates River was a large population center, and has yielded extensive information in the royal tombs which were excavated under the direction of Sir Leonard Wooley and the sponsorship of the British Museum and the museum of Pennsylvania University. Can you fathom the fact that after leaving Haran for Canaan, God worked in Abrams life for one hundred years? I see Terah took Abram, Lot & Sarai to go to Canaan, & died on route in Haran, seemingly before God spoke to Abram to leave his country. Anyone who then wanted to join Abe to go on to Canaan was up to them. Abram was, in our vernacular, no spring chicken when he left Haran for Canaan. Blessing would come through Abraham in several ways. Abraham was the tenth generation from Noah through Shem and was born 352 years after the Deluge, in 2018 B.C.E. Iraq ) Abraham, when he left Haran, his oldest son, his... 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