. The call of God to Abraham told him to “Get thee out of thy country [Ur], and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house” (12:1). Abraham obeyed the part of his call about leaving his country, but he did not obey the part about leaving his relatives. Some writers try to excuse Abraham here by saying that the call was originally given to Terah; for Scripture says, “Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife;