Page 104 - Four Thousand Years Ago by Geoffrey Bibby

THE FRIEND OF GOD

1930—1860 B.C.

ow THESE ARE the generations of Terah. Terah begat

Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot. And Haran
died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his na-

tivity, in Ur of the Chaldees. . . .

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 theij went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees to

go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Flaran and
dwelt there. . . .

Now the Lord said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country,

and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto the land

that I will shew thee. . . .

And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brothers son,

and all the substance that they had gathered, and the souls that

they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the

land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came. . . .

The free city of Ur lay outstretched and prosperous on the

banks of the broad Euphrates. The brown bare-legged children

who scampered up and down the stairways and terraces of the

ziggurat, the holy temple-mountain built of burnt and sun-dried

brick by the great king Ur-Nammu nearly two hundred years

before, could, when they threw themselves gasping on the flat

summit beneath the walls of the tiled summit temple, look out
over the flat sun-baked roofs to the new houses being erected

on the level sand below the city mound, and could watch the