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How old was Terah when he died?
The alleged age conflict depends on assigning Abram's birth specifically to Terah's seventieth year, although the birth notice lists three sons together.
- Textual conflict
- Weak tension
- The alleged conflict needs substantial assumptions, such as treating an omission as a denial or figurative language as literal.
- Importance
- Minor
- A local detail in a story, chronology, or inventory.
The competing calculated death age assumes Abram specifically was born when Terah was seventy, which the grouped birth notice does not establish.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
A calculation links Abram's departure to Terah's age of one hundred forty five
And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Genesis 11:26
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Genesis 11
So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
Genesis 12:4
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Genesis 12