6 Traveling through Canaan, they came to a place near Shechem and set up camp beside the oak at Moreh. 5 He took his wife, Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all his wealth-his livestock and all the people who had joined his household at Haran-and finally arrived in Canaan. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”Ĥ So Abram departed as the LORD had instructed him, and Lot went with him. 3 I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you. I will bless you and make you famous, and I will make you a blessing to others. 2 I will cause you to become the father of a great nation. Compare 11:26, 12:4.ġ Then the LORD told Abram, “Leave your country, your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you. But they stopped instead at the village of Haran and settled there.ģ2 Terah lived for 205 years and died while still at Haran. (Milcah had a sister named Iscah.) 30 Now Sarai was not able to have any children.ģ1 Terah took his son Abram, his daughter-in-law Sarai, and his grandson Lot (his son Haran’s child) and left Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. 29 Meanwhile, Abram married Sarai, and his brother Nahor married Milcah, the daughter of their brother Haran. 28 But while Haran was still young, he died in Ur of the Chaldeans, the place of his birth. Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran and Haran had a son named Lot. I will add different figures to the borders of each map, adding characters that relate to the map subject.Ģ7 This is the history of Terah’s family. If you look carefully at the map border you will see I have included some little black and white figures. Notice the figures on the border of the map. If Abram went to On (aka Heliopolis) we’d have to add another 60 miles (97 Km) to that trek!Ġ4) The return to Canaan, in a straight line from Raamses (in Egypt) to Bethel, via Beersheba on “The Way to Shur”, is about 230 miles (368 Km).Īs an absolute minimal then, Abram, Sarai, Lot and all their herds, livestock, servants, etc must have walked 1551 miles (2494 Km) and it was probably MUCH more than that!Īccording to The Chronological Life Application Study Bible, Abraham was born in 2166 B.C., during the Early Bronze Age, and the migration of Abram from Haran to Canaan occurred around 2091 B.C. This is assuming Abram went via Beersheba and walked “The Way to Shur” (an ancient road) into Egypt and that he stopped at Raamses. Using the line/path drawing function in Google Earth I calculated the following:Ġ1) In straight lines from Ur to Babel/Babylon, to Accad, to Mari, to Rezeph, to Haran it is about 641 miles (1031 Km).Ġ2) In straight lines from Haran to Carchemesh, to Aleppo, to Hamath, to Damascus, to Shechem it is about 426 miles (686 Km).Ġ3) In a straight line from Shechem, to Bethel, to Egypt it is about 254 miles (409 Km). I thought it might be interesting to try to calculate how far Abram, Sarai, Lot and their company walked, on all their travels. Genesis 13:5-13 records the separation of Lot from Abram as the land of Canaan couldn’t support all their flocks and herds living so close together. Genesis 13:1-4 tells of Abram’s journey from Egypt back through the Negev to the same camp between Bethel and Ai, where he had built an altar to the Lord. Next a severe famine in Canaan drove Abram and his company into Egypt (Genesis 12:10). He then camped between Bethel and Ai and built an altar to the Lord there (Genesis 12:8) and then moved in stages into the Negev desert (Genesis 12:9). Some time later God spoke to Abram (when he was 75 years old) and he continued the migration from Haran to near Shechem, in Canaan (Genesis 12:1-6). We know from verse 32 that Abram’s father Terah died in Haran. The first part of the journey involved Terah (Abram’s father), Abram, Sarai (Abram’s wife), Lot (Terah’s grandson) and all their goods and servants, travelling from Ur of the Chaldeans to Haran, a northern Mesopotamian commercial city (Genesis 11:27-32) (for all Bible reference, see bottom of page). The red arrowed lines show the route he took. This is my map of the Middle East, showing the route Abram took, going from Ur of the Chaldeans to Haran and then on to Canaan, into Egypt and finally back to Canaan again.
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