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Terah

Terah was the father of Abraham. He led his family out of Ur of the Chaldees toward Canaan but settled in Haran, where he died (Genesis 11).

Haran (Son of Terah)People
Haran appears in Genesis 11 as a son of Terah, a brother of Abram and Nahor, and the father of Lot, Milcah, and Iscah. He died in Ur of the Chaldees before his father, Terah.
NahorPeople
Nahor is the name of two members of Abraham's family in the Book of Genesis: Abraham's grandfather (the father of Terah) and Abraham's brother (the son of Terah).
IscahPeople
Iscah is a woman mentioned once in the Bible, in Genesis 11:29. She was the daughter of Haran son of Terah and the sister of Milcah and Lot. Jewish tradition sometimes identifies her with Sarai, the wife of Abraham.
Genesis 11Bible
Genesis 11 contains the account of Babel, in which the languages were divided and people were scattered over all the earth, followed by the genealogy from Shem to Terah. It relates how Terah took Abram, Lot, and Sarai, left Ur of the Chaldees, and settled in Haran.
HaranBible
Haran was a city in northern Mesopotamia where Abraham's family stayed after leaving Ur of the Chaldees, and where Jacob spent twenty years in the household of his uncle Laban.

Genesis 11:24
And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
Genesis 11:25
And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:26
And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Genesis 11:27
Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
Genesis 11:28
And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
Genesis 11:31
And 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; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.