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Nov 15, 2010 · Dilemma. Was Abram 135 years old when he left Haran according to Acts 7:4 or was he 75 years old according to Genesis 12:4? If the last is correct, than Terah has lived still for 60 years while Abram was in the promised land. Solution.
The Rabbinic answer that is quoted by Rashi from the Midrash Rabbah is that indeed Terach was still alive when Abram left Haran. Why does the text say that he dies? Abram was 75 years old when he left Haran, Terach was 70 years old when Abram was born, thus 145 years old when Abram left Haran.
- Short Answer: Abram did indeed depart from Haran after his father died, as the Old Testament indicates, and as the New Testament explicitly claims...
- To summarise: On the one hand we have the evidence of Stephen's speech and the vuv consecutive (or consecutive preterite) וַיֹּאמֶר of Genesis 12:1...
- In General: Did Abraham leave Haran before or after his father died? In short: Abraham left Haran before his father died. Let me first address the...
- Abraham may easily have left Haran both before and after his father Terah died. While he left the city of Haran at one age, he also had a brother w...
- The First Separation: separation from his homeland and relatives, separation from Terah (Gen 12:1; Acts 7:2-4) Ur of the Chaldeans was the place wh...
- God's word is true, so we have 2 basic ways to interpret the delimna. 1. Abraham was born later than implied. Which is not a problem, though a per...
- Summary of Answer Terah 70 years when Abraham was born (Gen 11:26) Terah 205 years when Abraham died (Gen 11:32) Abraham was 75 years old when he l...
- It's possible that Abram's father as referred to by Stephen was Noah, not Terah. It's possible that when Abram got the call from God while in Ur,...
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He left Haran. Abram was 75 years old when he left Haran. Lot went with him. 5 Abram took his wife Sarai, and his nephew Lot. He took everything that belonged to them. He also took the people that worked for them in Haran. They all left to go to the land of Canaan. When they arrived in Canaan, 6 Abram walked through the land. He went as far as ...
Jan 14, 2024 · If you’re short on time, here’s a quick answer to your question: Abraham was 75 years old when God first called him to leave his homeland of Haran and travel to Canaan, according to Genesis 12:4. God’s First Call to Abraham in Haran. Abraham, originally named Abram, was born in the Sumerian city of Ur to Terah.
May 12, 2004 · Twenty years? Do you realize that it was probably years from the time Abram was called in Ur until he ended up in Canaan. Do you know that after Abram entered the land of Canaan it was another 25 years until he had his son, Isaac? Can you fathom the fact that after leaving Haran for Canaan, God worked in Abram’s life for one hundred years?
Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran. 5 He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there. 6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem.
Abram was 75 years old when he left Haran. Good News Translation. When Abram was seventy-five years old, he started out from Haran, as the LORD had told him to do; and Lot went with him. International Standard Version. So Abram left there, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot accompanied him.
