Kejadian 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.

Kejadian 12:4-5

12:4 So Abram left, ³  just as the Lord had told him to do, ⁴  and Lot went with him. (Now ⁵  Abram was 75 years old ⁶  when he departed from Haran.) 12:5 And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew ⁷  Lot, and all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired ⁸  in Haran, and they left for ⁹  the land of Canaan. They entered the land of Canaan.

[11:32]  ¹ tn Heb “And the days of Terah were.”

[11:32]  ² tn Heb “Terah”; the pronoun has been substituted for the proper name in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[12:4]  ³ sn So Abram left. This is the report of Abram’s obedience to God’s command (see v. 1).

[12:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “just as the Lord said to him.”

[12:4]  ⁵ tn The disjunctive clause (note the pattern conjunction + subject + implied “to be” verb) is parenthetical, telling the age of Abram when he left Haran.

[12:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “was the son of five years and seventy year[s].”

[12:4]  sn Terah was 70 years old when he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran (Gen 11:26). Terah was 205 when he died in Haran (11:32). Abram left Haran at the age of 75 after his father died. Abram was born when Terah was 130. Abram was not the firstborn – he is placed first in the list of three because of his importance. The same is true of the list in Gen 10:1 (Shem, Ham and Japheth). Ham was the youngest son (9:24). Japheth was the older brother of Shem (10:21), so the birth order of Noah’s sons was Japheth, Shem, and Ham.

[12:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “the son of his brother.”

[12:5]  ⁸ tn For the semantic nuance “acquire [property]” for the verb עָשָׂה (’asah), see BDB 795 s.v. עָשָׂה.

[12:5]  ⁹ tn Heb “went out to go.”