Genesis 12:4

II. PILGRIMS SEEKING. CITY.

4. So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him.

"By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into. place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither be went." His prompt obedience of. command that separated him from all that he had ever known, demonstrated his faith. The family of Terah, his father and brethren, were left behind; Lot, his nephew, and of course, Sarai his wife, were taken, as well as all their property, consisting largely of flocks, and the numerous dependents of. great pastoral chieftain, "the souls that they had gotten in Haran."

Abram was seventy-five years old.

Stephen says, Acts 7:4, that Abraham departed after Terah's death; but Genesis 11:32 says that Terah was 205 years old when he died, and 11:26 seems to imply that he was seventy when Abraham was born. If these figures are correct, Terah was 145 years old when Abraham went to Canaan, and lived sixty years afterward. It is by no means certain, however, that we are to conclude that Terah was seventy when Abraham was born; the latter may have been the youngest son, mentioned first as the greatest, and seventy may have been the age when his first was born. The Samaritan Pentateuch, in some respects more reliable than the Hebrew copies, gives the age of Terah at his death as 145, instead of 205. If he was seventy at Abraham's birth, he died the very year that Abraham started to Canaan, according to this reading.