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Abram Departs from Haran

Event · 1921 BC

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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.

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