Acts 7:4

Verse 4. Land of the Chaldaeans. From Ur of the Chaldees, Ge 11:31. When his father was dead. This passage has given rise to no small difficulty in the interpretation. The difficulty is this: From Ge 11:26, it would seem that Abraham was born when Terah was seventy years of age--" And Terah lived seventy years and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran." From Ge 12:4, it seems that Abraham was seventy-five years of age when he departed from Haran to Canaan. The age of Terah was therefore but one hundred and forty-five years. Yet, in Ge 11:32, it is said that Terah was two hundred and five years old when he died; thus leaving sixty years of Terah's life beyond the time when Abraham left Haran.