“It was several years before this that God first told him to leave Ur of the Chaldees. Then he came to Haran, which is about half-way between the valley of the Euphrates and the valley of the Jordan. God had called him into the land of the Canaanite, and “
Ummmmmmmmmm....It was Terah the father of Abraham that took his family out of Ur and moved to Haran(obstensibly to go to Canaan but Terah stalled in Haran).(though Abraham was married to Sarai at the time, he wasn’t separated from his family’s clan. Abraham was not yet called of God at the time of the move...though I remember discussions in Sunday night classes over the motivation for Terah’s move....the Bible doesn’t say! Perhaps Terah was the “halfway man” and not Abraham.
Genesis 11:31-32.
That’s right.
It’s interesting how much we sometimes depend on others and the urban myths that Christianity adheres to, just like Eve eating an (supposedly) apple or the idea that there were three Magi.
Thanks for pointing that out. It’s always good to get stuff like that cleared up.