¹⁷ While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, ^(A)“The Chaldeans formed ^(B)three groups and made a raid on the camels and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

²⁸ Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his kindred, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

¹³ Behold the land of ^(A)the Chaldeans! This is the people that was not;^[a] Assyria destined it for wild beasts. They erected ^(B)their siege towers, they stripped her palaces bare, they made her a ruin.

¹⁵ and ^(A)the Sabeans fell upon them and took them and struck down the servants^[a] with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

³ David said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to him, “I have escaped from the camp of Israel.”

³¹ Terah ^(A)took 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 ^(B)from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.