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Abraham
Migrates to Canaan
Abraham, the first of the Hebrew patriarchs, was born in a city
called Ur. Because the Bible calls the city "Ur of the Chaldeans,"
the text is probably referring to the great city of Ur in southern
Mesopotamia. Abraham's family moved to Haran, in northwestern Mesopotamia,
and from there Abraham went to the land of Canaan. Although there
is no evidence of Abraham's existence outside the Bible, the migration
recorded in the Book of Genesis is consistent with the population
movements that took place in the 2nd millennium BCE along established
trade routes.
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Terah took his sonAbram
and his grandson Lot son of Haran,
and his daughter-in-law Sarai,
his son Abram's wife, and they went out together from Ur
of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan; but
when they came to Haran,
they settled there.
Now YHWH
said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and
your father's house to the land that I will show you."
Abram took his wife Sarai and his brother's son Lot and
all the possessions that they had gathered, and the persons
whom they had acquired in Haran; and they set forth to go
to the land of Canaan.
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