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Abram Leaves Home

For those familiar with scripture and the history of the Jewish people or at least familiar with the Old Testament, here's more events. You will not have seen them in this order before, and you can note that from the list of references, as we seem to be going throughout the book of Genesis, back and forth.

The above line is not accepted by all and deserves further explanation. Some state that Acts 7:4 tells us that Abram left AFTER his father died. If Genesis 11:26 is taken to mean that Abram was born when his father was 70, then Abram would be 135 years old if he left Haran after his father's death! Yet, Genesis 12:4 says Abram was 75 years old when he left.

Either Genesis 11:26 should not be interpreted that Abram was born in Teran's 70th year, or we should say that Abram did not wait until his father was dead before continuing his father's journey.

Here I choose to use Genesis 12:1 to say Abram left early, before his father was dead because He was told to "get out of his father's house". While that may refer to the house in which his father HAD lived, I tend to believe that he left his earthly father alive and continued the journey his earthly father had started. I am still praying about this! (Note, other timeline shows he left at father's death, but was born last, not first!)

Also, Abraham leaves Haran, gets the covenant, and enters Egypt. This is a significant year, because the Exodus dates from it, according to Galatians 3:17. The law (the 10 Commandments) was given 430 years after the promise to Abraham. Also note that Abraham entered Egypt with his 'sister' at this time, so it is not unreasonable (to me) to use this time as the start of the 430 years.

The list above is pretty self-explanatory. A sequence of events, all simple to date from earlier events.

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