Haran
A waypoint on Abraham's journey; Jacob shepherded Laban's flocks here for twenty years.
First mentioned in the Bible
So Abram went just as Jehovah had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was 75 years old when he left Haran.— Genesis 12:4
Background
Haran lay on the trade routes of northern Mesopotamia. Terah's family settled here from Ur, and Abram departed for Canaan at age 75. Later Jacob, fleeing Esau, married and raised children in the house of his uncle Laban here.
Related Scriptures (New World Translation)
So Abram went just as Jehovah had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was 75 years old when he left Haran.— Genesis 12:4
Jacob departed from Beʹer-sheʹba and kept going toward Haʹran.— Genesis 28:10
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