Gen 11:28 | TNotes | STEP | 11:28 The call of Abram occurred in Ur of the Chaldeans (15:7 ; Acts 7:2-4 ), the main city of Sumer in Mesopotamia near the mouth of the Persian Gulf. The family had moved there perhaps generations before the call. Their ancestral home (“native country,” Gen 12:1 ) was apparently near Haran, in the region of the descendants of Shem (11:10-26 ); thus they settled there when they left Ur (11:31 ) and were later described as “Arameans” (Deut 26:5 ). • land of his birth: The same Hebrew phrase is repeated in 12:1 (“native country”), making Ur, not Haran, the location of Abram’s call (see 15:7 ; Neh 9:7 ; Acts 7:2 ).

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‏ Genesis 11:28

11:28 ^a The call of Abram occurred in Ur of the Chaldeans (15:7 ^b; Acts 7:2-4 ^c), the main city of Sumer in Mesopotamia near the mouth of the Persian Gulf. The family had moved there perhaps generations before the call. Their ancestral home (“native country,” Gen 12:1 ^d) was apparently near Haran, in the region of the descendants of Shem (11:10-26 ^e); thus they settled there when they left Ur (11:31 ^f) and were later described as “Arameans” (Deut 26:5 ^g).

• land of his birth: The same Hebrew phrase is repeated in 12:1 ^h (“native country”), making Ur, not Haran, the location of Abram’s call (see 15:7 ⁱ; Neh 9:7 ^j; Acts 7:2 ^k).