Timeline of the Bible · The Patriarchs
Abram Departs from Haran
Event · 1921 BC
What the Bible Says
- “Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran” Genesis 12:4
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
The Years
- The Year 1921 BC
- “ABram, after his fathers decease, was called again by God”
The beginning of the four hundred and thirty years that end at the Exodus (Exodus 12:40-41; Galatians 3:17).
Dated by Archbishop James Ussher’s Annals of the World (1658), quoted as printed, whose dates were printed in the margins of King James Bibles for two centuries.