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The One God and Abram
Abram lived in Mesopotamia, in a polytheistic world where every force of nature had its own god. The revelation he receives is radically different: one God, Creator of all things, who invalidates all other gods. Abram submits to this revelation, brings his family into this new faith, and thus becomes a foundational example for all future generations of biblical monotheism.
Genesis 11.31-32 (King James Version) :And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.King James Version (1769), domaine public — texte : eBible.org