²⁶ After Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram,^(A) Nahor^(B) and Haran.^(C)

Abram’s Family

²⁷ This is the account^(D) of Terah’s family line.

Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor^(E) and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.^{(F) 28} While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans,^(G) in the land of his birth. ²⁹ Abram and Nahor^(H) both married. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai,^(I) and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milkah;^(J) she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milkah and Iskah. ³⁰ Now Sarai was childless because she was not able to conceive.^(K)

³¹ Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot^(L) son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law^(M) Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans^(N) to go to Canaan.^(O) But when they came to Harran,^(P) they settled there.

³² Terah^(Q) lived 205 years, and he died in Harran.

² To this he replied: “Brothers and fathers,^(A) listen to me! The God of glory^(B) appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Harran.^{(C) 3} ‘Leave your country and your people,’ God said, ‘and go to the land I will show you.’^[a](D)

⁴ “So he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Harran. After the death of his father, God sent him to this land where you are now living.^{(E) 5} He gave him no inheritance here,^(F) not even enough ground to set his foot on. But God promised him that he and his descendants after him would possess the land,^(G) even though at that time Abraham had no child. ⁶ God spoke to him in this way: ‘For four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated.^{(H) 7} But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves,’ God said, ‘and afterward they will come out of that country and worship me in this place.’^{[b](I) 8} Then he gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision.^(J) And Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him eight days after his birth.^(K) Later Isaac became the father of Jacob,^(L) and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.^(M)