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As the text says, Avram was 75 when he left Haran. So, either Terach was 130 when Avram was born, or Avram left while Terach was still alive.
The medieval commentator (and compiler), Rashi, argues for Avram leaving during Terach's lifetime, based on Gen 12:4:
and Terah died in Haran: [This happened] after Abram had left Haran and had come to the land ...
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Short Answer: Abram did indeed depart from Haran after his father died, as the Old Testament indicates, and as the New Testament explicitly claims. (Terah was 130 years old when Abram was born.)
Good question. (This happens to be one of the most commonly asked -- and addressed -- "discrepancies" in Scripture.)
The problem is in the modern Western reading ...
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When the Tanak was first written, it was written without vowels. In the early Middle Ages (ca AD 800), scribes known as the Masoretes added the system of vowel points (niqqud or "diacretic markings") that are used in pointed Hebrew texts since then. Other systems were developed at roughly the same time (as Hebrew became less of a spoken language), but only ...
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In the tanakh Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov are the three patriarchs of the Jewish people, beginning with a covenant with Avraham (Gen 12, 15, 17) and culminating in God revealing himself and giving his torah (Ex 20) to the family of Israel (i.e. Yaakov, after God's messenger renamed him (Gen 32)). God speaks directly to these three patriarchs.
God ...
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The classic Jewish commentator Rashi quoting the Medrash and the Talmud says:
and Abraham weighed out to Ephron: עֶפְרֹן is spelled without a “vav,”
because he promised much but did not do even a little [i.e., he
promised the cave as a gift but took a great deal of money for it],
for he took from him large shekels, viz. centenaria [worth one ...
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Before Moses, there is possibly no other name more appropriate for God other than the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The reason is that God called Abraham out to populate a land given to a people that would serve him and then repeated the promise to Isaac and Jacob. The promise was to select a 'certain race', and how this particular line along that race ...
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