Genesis 11:28
New International Version
While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth.

New Living Translation
But Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, the land of his birth, while his father, Terah, was still living.

English Standard Version
Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his kindred, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

Berean Standard Bible
During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

King James Bible
And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

New King James Version
And Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

New American Standard Bible
Haran died during the lifetime of his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

NASB 1995
Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

NASB 1977
And Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

Legacy Standard Bible
And Haran died in the presence of Terah his father in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

Amplified Bible
Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

Christian Standard Bible
Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans, during his father Terah’s lifetime.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans, during his father Terah’s lifetime.

American Standard Version
And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And Haran died in the lifetime of Terakh his father, in the land where he was begotten in Ur of the Chaldeans.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Arrhan died in the presence of Tharrha his father, in the land in which he was born, in the country of the Chaldees.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Aran died before Thare his father, in the land of his nativity in Ur of the Chaldees.

English Revised Version
And Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, his native land.

Good News Translation
and Haran died in his hometown of Ur in Babylonia, while his father was still living.

International Standard Version
Haran died during his father's lifetime in the land of his birth, that is, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

Literal Standard Version
and Haran dies in the presence of Terah his father, in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.

Majority Standard Bible
During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

New American Bible
Haran died before Terah his father, in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

NET Bible
Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans, while his father Terah was still alive.

New Revised Standard Version
Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

New Heart English Bible
And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur Kasdim.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Haran died before his father Terah, in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

World English Bible
Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees, while his father Terah was still alive.

Young's Literal Translation
and Haran dieth in the presence of Terah his father, in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Terah's Descendants
27This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot. 28During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans. 29And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah.…

Cross References
Genesis 11:31
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 15:7
The LORD also told him, "I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess."

Nehemiah 9:7
You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, who brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.

Job 1:17
While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: "The Chaldeans formed three bands, raided the camels, and took them away. They put the servants to the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!"


Treasury of Scripture

And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

Ur.

Genesis 15:7
And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.

Nehemiah 9:7
Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;

Acts 7:2-4
And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran, …

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Genesis 11
1. One language in the world.
2. The building of Babel.
5. It is interrupted by the confusion of tongues, and the builders dispersed.
10. The generations of Shem.
27. The generations of Terah, the father of Abram.
31. Terah, with Abram and Lot, move from Ur to Haran.














(28) Haran died before his father.--Heb., in the presence of his father. This is the first recorded instance of a premature death caused by natural decay.

In Ur of the Chaldees.--Ur-Casdim. A flood of light has been thrown upon this town by the translation of the cuneiform inscriptions, and we may regard it as certain that Ur is now represented by the mounds of the city of Mugheir. When first we read of this city, it was inhabited by a population of Accadians, a Turanian race, sprang probably from an early offshoot of the family of Japheth; but in course of time it was conquered by men of the Semitic family, who from thence overran the whole of Shinar, or Babylonia, and expelled from it the descendants of Cush. Mr. Sayce (Chald. Gen. p. 20) puts this conquest at some very uncertain date, two or three thousand years before Christ; but the establishment of a powerful monarchy under a king named Lig-Bagas, and the consolidation under his sway of several petty kingdoms, into which Chaldea had been previously split up, he places with some confidence at 3,000 years before the Christian era (ibid., p. 24). Now, there are in our museums inscribed bricks and engraved cylinders actually from the library of Lig-Bagas, and we learn that the Accadian literature was still older; for many of the works found at Agane are translations from it: and thus all those difficulties as to the antiquity of the art of syllabic writing which used to exist when men had nothing better to judge by than Egyptian picture-writing have passed away. Abraham migrated from a town which was then a famous seat of learning, and where even the ordinary transactions of life were recorded on tablets of terra-cotta. Very probably, therefore, he carried with him bricks and cylinders inscribed with these ancient records. We are no longer, therefore, surprised at the striking similarity between the narratives in the Book of Genesis prior to the migration of Abraham and those preserved in the cuneiform inscriptions. But the believer in inspiration cannot fail to be struck also at their dissimilarity. The cuneiform inscriptions are polytheistic, acknowledging twelve superior gods, and of gods inferior a countless multitude. The Semitic race is accused of adding to these a number of goddesses, chief among whom were Beltis, the wife of Bel, and Istar, the planet Venus. Of all this there is no trace in the Biblical records; nor is there in the whole Chaldean literature anything so grand and Divine as the thoughts expressed in the opening words of Genesis: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."

As Ur is an Accadian word, we must reject all Semitic interpretations of its meaning; we must further add that Mr. Rawlinson gives reasons for believing that its early importance was due to its being a great maritime emporium (Anc. Mon., i. 27). It was, we read, a walled town, and the great port for the commerce of the Persian Gulf, while round it lay a marvellously rich country, said to be the original home of the wheat-plant, and famous for its dates and other fruits. Its being called Ur-Casdim, "Ur of the Chaldees," shows that they had already won it from the Accadians when Terah dwelt there. Its subsequent name, Mugheir, probably means "mother of bitumen"--that is, producer of it.

Verse 28. - And Haran died before his father. Literally, upon the face of his father; ἐνώπιον τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ (LXX); while his father was alive (Munster, Luther, Calvin, Rosenmüller); perhaps also in his father s presence (Keil, Lange), though the Jewish fable may be discarded that Terah, at this time an 'idolater, accused his sons to Nimrod, who cast them into a furnace for refusing to worship the fire-god, and that Haran perished in the flames in his father s sight. The decease of Haran is the first recorded instance of the natural death of a son before his father. In the land of his nativity. Ἐν τῇ γῇ ῇ ἐγεννήθη (LXX.). In Ur of the Chaldees. Ur Kasdim (Genesis 11:31; 15:7; Nehemiah 9:7). The Kasdim - formerly believed to have been Shemites on account of

(1) Abram's settlement among them,

(2) the preservation of the name Kesed among his kindred (Genesis 22:22),

(3) the close affinity to a Shemite tongue of the language known to modern philologists as Chaldee, an Arameean dialect differing but slightly from the Syriac (Heeren), and . . .

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
During
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

his father
אָבִ֑יו (’ā·ḇîw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1: Father

Terah’s lifetime,
תֶּ֣רַח (te·raḥ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 8646: Terah -- Abraham's father, also a place in the desert

Haran
הָרָ֔ן (hā·rān)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 2039: Haran -- 'mountaineer', a brother of Abram, also an Israelite

died
וַיָּ֣מָת (way·yā·māṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 4191: To die, to kill

in his native
מוֹלַדְתּ֖וֹ (mō·w·laḏ·tōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 4138: Nativity, lineage, native country, offspring, family

land,
בְּאֶ֥רֶץ (bə·’e·reṣ)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 776: Earth, land

in Ur
בְּא֥וּר (bə·’ūr)
Preposition-b | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 218: Ur -- a city in southern Babylon

of the Chaldeans.
כַּשְׂדִּֽים׃ (kaś·dîm)
Noun - proper - masculine plural
Strong's 3778: Chaldeans -- a region of southern Babylon and its inhab


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