Abraham's journey

Abram's family left Ur of the Chaldeans and settled at Haran, halfway along the Fertile Crescent. There God's call came: 'Go from your country... to the land that I will show you.' The road ran south into Canaan — an altar at Shechem, camp near Bethel, on into the Negev, a famine detour to Egypt, and finally home to…