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Terah takes Abram, Sarai and Lot out of Ur of the Chaldees toward Canaan.
KJV (Genesis 11:31): “And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.”
The mechanism
THE LINE LEAVES THE CITY — out of the tower's city, toward a promise
How it was checked
- EvidenceT3 SCRIPTURE; Status: ADDED 2026-09-18
- Letter eraTHE ENCLOSURE AT THE BIRTH OF WRITING c. 3500 to c. 1150 BC
- Plate — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible, 1866 · Public domain · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:011.Abraham_Goes_to_the_Land_of_Canaan.jpg
- SourcesSCRIPTURE — Genesis 11:31 (KJV, checked 18 September)
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