²⁸ While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans,^(A) in the land of his birth. ²⁹ Abram and Nahor^(B) both married. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai,^(C) and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milkah;^(D) she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milkah and Iskah. ³⁰ Now Sarai was childless because she was not able to conceive.^(E)

³¹ Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot^(F) son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law^(G) Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans^(H) to go to Canaan.^(I) But when they came to Harran,^(J) they settled there.

³² Terah^(K) lived 205 years, and he died in Harran.

³ ‘Leave your country and your people,’ God said, ‘and go to the land I will show you.’^[a](A)