"Abram" ------------ " Abraham" The Journey of " Tarah"

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The journey of "Tarah" the father of "Abram" from "Ur" north of "Albasra"(now),to "Haran " north of Euphrates river near one of its branch's source far from "Aleppo"(today) with one hundred miles . It was a journey which explained to us two things :- First ,The travelling across the desert to find a new Place to live were an habitual behavior at that time , when "Abram" did it later to travel to "Canaan" ,it was not a strange behavior, so "Tarah" traveled with his family, It was the habit of the people who lived between the two great civilizations , " Egypt " and "Mesopotamia", it was not any centric government   at that area to deal with the citizenship affairs , every  family had a private governor ,or the old father of the family ,who had a well of water , and a limited area of grass for the sheep ,the traveler across the land ,who did not care of these simple properties was an usual guest .

Second:-God himself who design the plane ,of how "Abram" could travel to "Canaan" (according to God's agreement with "Abram " who was not yet new the purpose of his future journey ), It was impossible for "Abram" or any one to travel across the southern desert of Syria ,although it was shorter than the way from "Haran " to Canaan" because,the lake of water and rest places , even shadows to rest,but from "Haran " to "Canaan" it was a common roads , and a plenty of water with many rest places .So God worked in the heart of "Tarah",and with the necessities of the family to help, in paving the way for the next journey of "Abram" in Genesis 15.7  God said " I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur" , therefore the journey of "Tarah " was in God's plane ."Tarah" was seventy years old, but it seemed that that age was the age of youthfulness , because "Abram" did not told "Pharaoh" after that about the relation of marriage between him and "Sarai " and used the other relation with her as a sister ,because she was attractive in the age of ninety ,This relationship of marriage with His Wife and Sister occurred  as part of the story of "Tarah's" journey , because when "Haran" the son of "Tarah" dead ,he left his son "Lot" and his daughters "Iscah" and Milcah"to his father who became their father according to the tradition of that age,"Nuzi " and Mari" manuscripts , told us that if a son dead and his father was still alive , the father would be their father ,he ought to prepare his daughters for marriage, because the future husband would pay some money for the father ,who might give his daughter some sheep and other things , and bought a slave for her , if she could not bore a boy for her husband , she would give him the slave ,for fear from another marriage with another woman who would bear a boy , therefore we found "Sarai - Hagar" and also "Leah, Rachel- Bilha,Zilph". 

According to 1*Josephus (Ant1.6),we new that "Tarah " hold the marriage of his son " Abram" with "Iscah" who called her "Sarai" because the tradition gave the right for the husband to call his wife with a new name , also "Nahor " with "Milcah" or "Maacah" therefore "Lot " accompanied "Abram" in his journey as her brother and at the same time "Abram" was his true uncle and his brother in law . 

At last the amazing thing that "Nahor's" wife bore many sons while "Sarai" could not , the youngest child of both "Nahor" and "Milcah" was "Bethuel" who grew up and married , and have a son called "Laban",but when he was about to accept his second child "Rebecca", God gave "Abram" and "Sarai" a boy called "Isac" , he was a suitable husband for "Rebecca", she was a wife of her father's uncle , therefore the Journey of "Tarah " was very important in the social,spiritual future life of "Abram" it was a strange journey , to the north near the kingdom of "Nemroud" who established "Babel", he was the first man who used his strength to create The private earth possession , and became the first king in the human history, it was the sin of "Babel", the desire of possession, by force , the differences between the nations , but at the time of "Tarah" he was dead many centuries ago , the king who sat on his thrown was "Amraphel" the king of Shinaar .                         please comment . Rev. Joseph.