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31 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot, who was the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, Abram's wife, and with them he left the city of Ur in Babylonia to go to the land of Canaan. They went as far as Haran and settled there.

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List of Priests and Levites

12 The following is a list of the priests and Levites who returned from exile with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and with the High Priest Joshua:

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(A)You, Lord God, chose Abram
    and led him out of Ur in Babylonia;
    you changed his name to Abraham.

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(A)Your name will no longer be Abram, but Abraham,[a] because I am making you the ancestor of many nations.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 17:5 This name sounds like the Hebrew for “ancestor of many nations.”

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