The Bible Story - Abram Journeys To Canaan - Basil Wolverton - April 1959

Basil Wolverton

Two years after the flood, when Noah's son Shem was a hundred years old, Shem had a son called Arphaxad. (Genesis 11:10.) When Arphaxad was thirty-five years old, he had a son named Salah. (Gen. 11:12.) Several generations went by in this manner. When about three hundred years had passed, a man by the name of Abram was born. (Gen. 11:26.) Abram was brought up in a city in Mesopotamia (Acts 7:2) called Ur, not very far from the Spot where the Ark landed. (Gen. 11:28.) Like Noah, Abram learned to obey God's laws. Once again the people of that world were worshipping idols and living further and further from God's ways. Abram was one of the few who learned not to take part in pagan ways, and so when he was about seventy-five years old God spoke to him and told him to take his family and move to another country. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library