When they grew up Jacob, with help from his mother, disguised himself as Esau and tricked his father Isaac into blessing him. When he grew up Isaac married Rebekah.Ģ006 BC Jacob and his brother Esau were born to Isaac and Rebekah Abraham faithfully obeyed.Ģ066 BC Abraham and Sarah had a son called Isaac. However, Abraham and his father Terah, and his wife Sarai (Sarah) moved to the city of Haran in northern Iraq.Īfter Terah died God told Abraham to leave his homeland (modern-day Iraq) and go to Canaan (modern-day Israel). Hundreds of years before Abraham was born the Sumerians had become highly civilized. Ur was a city-state and it was part of an ancient culture called the Sumerian.
( The dates for the Old Testament are traditional but not everyone agrees with them ).Īccording to the Bible Abraham was born in the great city of Ur in what is now southern Iraq.
