The Life of Abraham

“The Background”


Genesis - Chapter 11 verses 26 to chapter 12 verse 1



(26)  And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
(27)  Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
(28)  And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
(29)  And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
(30)  But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
(31)  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.
(32)  And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.

Gen 12:1
(1)  Now 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: