an insuperable difficulty if Abram were the eldest son, born in his father’s seventieth year; for adding 70 + 75, Abram’s age on his departure “out of Haran,” would make Terah’s age only one hundred and forty-five years, the number assigned for it in the Samaritan Pentateuch. But according to the exposition given above of v. 26, together with the asserted brevity of the sojourn at Haran, which, though an hypothesis, meets all the conditions of the narrative, all difficulties are removed: for 130