Creation & Patriarchs
Abraham goes to Canaan
Abraham goes to Canaan is dated 2091 BC in the Modern reckoning and 1921 BC in the Traditional. It is told in Genesis 12:4. Abraham, Lot, Sarah are part of it.
So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
When did it happen?
- Modern reckoning
- 2091 BC
- Traditional reckoning
- 1921 BC
- How it's dated
- the Bible's numbers
Dates before about 900 BC depend on how the Bible's own numbers are added up. Why the two reckonings differ.
Sources: Theographic event 71; Genesis 12:4 (aged 75).
Where is it in the Bible?
Who was there, and where?
Where: Canaan, Haran, Shechem, Moreh (Shechem), Ai, Bethel (of Palestine), Negeb.
Which verses connect to Genesis 12:4?
The strongest cross-references of the key verse, ranked by reader votes (OpenBible.info).
- Hebrews 11:816 votes
By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.
- Genesis 11:315 votes
And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.
- Genesis 11:274 votes
This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.
Events, people and places: Theographic Bible Metadata (Robert Rouse), CC BY-SA 4.0, reshaped; dates also from the sources named on each anchor.