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<p>There seems to be a contradiction with respect to Abraham and where he was from. In <a id="nbi755-si1" onClick="return mV('Gen',11,'1-');">Gen 11</a>, he is said to be from Ur of the Chaldees.</p>
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<blockquote><p>And Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans (<a id="nbi755-si2" onClick="return mV('Gen',11,28);">Gen 11:28</a>).</p></blockquote>
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<p>Later, however, the family of Abraham said they were from Haran.</p>
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<blockquote><p>And Jacob said to them, My brethren, where are you from? And they said, We are from Haran (<a id="nbi755-si3" onClick="return mV('Gen',29,4);">Gen 29:4</a>).</p></blockquote>
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<p>How can Abraham be from two different places?</p>
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<p><b>Moved</b></p>
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<p>Again we have a simple solution. The family originated in Ur but later migrated to Haran:</p>
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<blockquote><p>And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there. So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran (<a id="nbi755-si4" onClick="return mV('Gen',11,31,32);">Gen 11:31-32</a>).</p></blockquote>
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<p>Abraham lived in Haran until he was seventy-five, so it is not unusual he could consider it home.</p>
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