![]() “Now Abram was 75 years old when he departed from Haran” (v.4 NET). It is in Genesis 12 that we find the first age marker for Abraham. When we first meet Abraham in Genesis 11, he and his family had just moved from Ur of the Chaldees to Haran. Although most may have a working knowledge of Abraham’s age, we often do not know how Isaac and Jacob work into the Biblical timeline. A case in point is Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. When we start to look at what the Bible says, we often get a far different – and sometimes surprising – picture. Often, we assume the ages of the characters to be what we saw depicted in children’s Bible classes when we were young. ![]() As we seek to understand God’s word better, it is often useful to take the time to sketch out a chronology of the lives of those we are studying.
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