WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -From Ur, Abraham traveled 700 miles to the borders of present-day Iraq, another 700 miles into Syria, another 800 down to Egypt by the inland road, and then back into Canaan-what is now Israel.

Detailed explanation-2: -He lived for a while in Harran, before settling near Hebron in Canaan.

Detailed explanation-3: -He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there. Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem.

Detailed explanation-4: -This opens in a new window. Abraham is presented as having come originally from the city of Ur in Chaldea [Gen. 11.31]. He left Southern Mesopotamia with his father, brother and the rest of his family and settled first in Haran, a town which lay on a tributary to the Euphrates to the north of today’s Syria.

Detailed explanation-5: -Abraham’s migration took place some time between 2000 B.C.E. and 1700 B.C.E. It occurred at a time when the Canaanites lived in relatively small, independently governed, walled cities.