Genesis 15:7

15:7 The Lord said ¹  to him, “I am the Lord ²  who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans ³  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.

Acts 7:2-4

7:2 So he replied, ⁴  “Brothers and fathers, listen to me. The God of glory appeared to our forefather ⁵  Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran, 7:3 and said to him, ‘Go out from your country and from your relatives, and come to the land I will show you.’ ⁶  7:4 Then he went out from the country of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God ⁷  made him move ⁸  to this country where you now live.

[15:7]  ¹ tn Heb “And he said.”

[15:7]  ² 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).

[15:7]  ³ 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.

[7:2]  ⁴ tn Grk “said.”

[7:2]  ⁵ tn Or “ancestor”; Grk “father.”

[7:3]  ⁶ sn A quotation from Gen 12:1.

[7:4]  ⁷ tn Grk “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[7:4]  ⁸ tn The translation “made him move” for the verb μετοικίζω (metoikizw) is given by L&N 85.83. The verb has the idea of “resettling” someone (BDAG 643 s.v.); see v. 43, where it reappears.