Genesis 11:28-31

28Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his kindred, in Ur of the Chaldeans. 29And Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram’s wife was aSarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife, bMilcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah. 30Now Sarai was barren; she had no child.

31Terah ctook Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife, and they went forth together dfrom Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.

Genesis 12:1

The Call of Abram

1Now ethe Lord said
Or had said
to Abram, “Go from your country
Or land
and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.

Nehemiah 9:7

7You are the Lord, the God hwho chose Abram and brought him out of iUr of the Chaldeans jand gave him the name Abraham.

Acts 7:2-4

2And Stephen said:

kBrothers and fathers, hear me. lThe God mof glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, nbefore he lived in Haran,
3and said to him, oGo out from your land and from your kindred and go into the land that I will show you.’ 4 pThen he went out from the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran. And qafter his father died, rGod removed him from there into this land in which you are now living.
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