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Verse

RBT Translation:

and Mountain is dying upon the faces448 of Terah his father, in the Earth of his birth-place,449 in Flame of the Chaldeans.450

LITV Translation:
And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
ESV Translation:
Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his kindred, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
Brenton Septuagint Translation:
And Haran died in the presence of Terah his father, in the land in which he was born, in the country of the Chaldees.

Footnotes

448

dying upon the faces. Compare with Ishmael dying and falling upon the faces of his brothers, Genesis 25:18.

449

Strong’s #4138, moledeth. Birth place. From the root yalad (#3205) to bear, bring forth. This is different from toldot (Gen 5:1), which is also a derivative of yalad but means births, offspring, descendents.

450

Flame of Chaldeans. Ur is from Strong’s #217 ur, a flame, fire. This itself stems from #215 or, meaning light. Chaldees (or Chaldeans) are part of Babylonia. They are used of Yahweh in judgement in the Prophets.