Genesis 11:31-32

11:31 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (the son of Haran), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and with them he set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. When they came to Haran, they settled there. 11:32 The lifetime ¹  of Terah was 205 years, and he ²  died in Haran.

Genesis 15:7

15:7 The Lord said ³  to him, “I am the Lord ⁴  who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans ⁵  to give you this land to possess.”

Nehemiah 9:7

9:7 “You are the LORD God who chose Abram and brought him forth from Ur of the Chaldeans. You changed his name to Abraham.

Isaiah 41:9

41:9 you whom I am bringing back ⁶  from the earth’s extremities,

and have summoned from the remote regions –

I told you, “You are my servant.”

I have chosen you and not rejected you.

Isaiah 51:2

51:2 Look at Abraham, your father,

and Sarah, who gave you birth. ⁷ 

When I summoned him, he was a lone individual, ⁸ 

but I blessed him ⁹  and gave him numerous descendants. ¹⁰ 

Ezekiel 33:24

33:24 “Son of man, the ones living in these ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land, but we are many; surely the land has been given to us for a possession.’ ¹¹ 

¹ tn Heb “And the days of Terah were.”

² tn Heb “Terah”; the pronoun has been substituted for the proper name in the translation for stylistic reasons.

³ tn Heb “And he said.”

⁴ sn I am the Lord. The Lord initiates the covenant-making ceremony with a declaration of who he is and what he has done for Abram. The same form appears at the beginning of the covenant made at Sinai (see Exod 20:1).

⁵ sn The phrase of the Chaldeans is a later editorial clarification for the readers, designating the location of Ur. From all evidence there would have been no Chaldeans in existence at this early date; they are known in the time of the neo-Babylonian empire in the first millennium b.c.

⁶ tn Heb “whom I have taken hold of [i.e., to lead back].”

⁷ sn Although Abraham and Sarah are distant ancestors of the people the prophet is addressing, they are spoken of as the immediate parents.

⁸ tn Heb “one”; NLT “was alone”; TEV “was childless.”

⁹ tn “Bless” may here carry the sense of “endue with potency, reproductive power.” See Gen 1:28.

¹⁰ tn Heb “and I made him numerous.”

¹¹ sn Outside of its seven occurrences in Ezekiel the term translated “possession” appears only in Exod 6:8 and Deut 33:4.