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Terah took. Terah being 200 and Abram 70. Compare Gen_15:7. Jos_24:3. Neh_9:7. Act_7:2-4. Heb_11:8.
daughter in law = daughter by another wife. See App-29.
they. Others beside those named. Compare Gen_24:10, Gen_24:15; Gen_29:10.
Ur = a city of great pretensions. Recent excavations show luxury and attainments. Abraham no nomad. See note on Gen_11:28.
Haran. Not the Haran of Gen_11:26 above; but Charran (Act_7:2, Act_7:4), the frontier town of Babylonian Empire, devoted to the worship of the Moon-god.
dwelt. Till he died (Gen_11:32).