Abraham the patriarch biography

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Abraham the patriarch biography

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Abraham (Abram) is Born

Abram (his birth name before being renamed Abraham) is the third son born to a man named Terah living in Ur of the Chaldees.

At the time of his birth his older brother Haran is about 60 years old (Genesis ) with second brother Nahor at an unknown younger age. Terah is about years old at the time of Abraham's birth. The family into which he is born was known to worship pagan deities (Joshua ).

Modern archeology dates the city of Ur, located in ancient Mesopotamia near the Euphrates River, to around 3, B