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Ch. XII. begot Tharra; and Nachor lived after he begot Tharra a hundred and twenty five years and begot sons and daughters, and died.

And Tharra Uved seventy years and begot Abram and Nachor and Arran.

Now these are the generations of Tharra. Tharra begot Abram and Nachor and Arran; and Arran begot Lot. And Arran died in the presence of his father Tharra in the land in which he was born in the country of the Chaldees. And Abram and Nachor took themselves wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sara, and the name of Nachor's wife, Malcha, a daughter of An'an, who was the father of Malcha and the father of Jescha. And Sara was barren and did not bear children. And Tharra took Abram his son and Lot the son of Arran, his grand son, and Sara his daughter in law, the wife of his son Abram, and led them out of the country of the Chaldees to go to the land of Chanaan. But when they came to Charran he took up his abode there. And in the land of Charran, all the days of Tharra were two hundred and five years. And Tharra died in Charran.

Now the Lord said to Abram, Depart from thy land and from thy kindred and from the house of thy father and come to the land which I will shew thee, and I will make thee a great nation; and I will bless thee and make thy name great, and thou shalt be blessed; and I will bless them, who bless thee; and those who curse thee I will curse: and by thee all the tribes of the earth shall be blessed. So Abram went as the Lord commanded him, and Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy five years old when he came out of Charran. And Abram took Sara his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance which they possessed, and every living creature which they had, and set out from Charran to go to the land of Chanaan. And Abram travelled through the land lengthwise till he came to the place of Sychem to the lofty Oak. Now the Chananites at that time inhabited that land. And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, "To thy seed I will give this land." So Abram built there an altar to the Lord who appeared to him. And from that place he went to the mountain east of Baithel and there pitched his tent, having VOL. I.