1  Now the Lord God caused the ^afamine to wax sore in the land of Ur, insomuch that Haran, my brother, died; but Terah, my father, yet lived in the land of Ur, of the Chaldees.

  17  Now I, Abraham, built an altar in the land of Jershon, and made an offering unto the Lord, and prayed that the ^bfamine might be turned away from my father's house, that they might not perish.

  4  Therefore I left the land of ^aUr, of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and I took Lot, my brother's son, and his wife, and Sarai my wife; and also my father followed after me, unto the land which we denominated Haran.