Deut 4:26, 40; 7:14; 25:15; 28:4, 11; Job 20:11, 22; Ps 21:4; Prov 3:16). But for Terah to arrive at such a conclusion would have required a previously revealed divine directive for such a journey. So God must have spoken to the family while they still lived in Ur. The plausibility of such a reading is confirmed in Acts 7:2–4, where Stephen, an early Christian martyr, argues that God’s call to Abram came originally in Ur (Acts 7:2–3). A reconstruction of events suggests that after (and perhaps partly
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