Abram could therefore have been born when Terah was about 25, that would make him a little over a hundred years old when Terah died. From this it is clear that Abram set out for the land "God was going to show him" about 30 years before Terah's death since he was 75 at the time: Gen 12:4 Abram left, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Haran. NIV.

Gen 12:1 God had told Abram, "Leave your own country* behind you, and your own people,* and go to the land I will guide you to. *Shows that he'd lived there long enough to call it "his country" anf "his people." As we showed in "Arabs are Hamites," Abraham kept to his own people for wives for Isaac and Jacob.
God didn't make any promises to Tera, vs. to Abram2 If you do, I will cause you to become the father of a great nation; I will bless you and make your name famous, and you will be a blessing to many others. 3 I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you; and the entire world will be blessed because of you." TLB

Gen 12:6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great

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Gen 13:6 But the land could not support both Abram and Lot with all their flocks and herds. There were too many animals for the available pasture. 7 So fights broke out between the herdsmen of Abram and Lot, despite the danger they all faced from the tribes of Canaanites and Perizzites present in the land. 8 Then Abram talked it over with Lot. "This fighting between our men has got to stop," he said. "We can't afford to let a rift develop between our clans. Close relatives such as we are must present a united front! TLB

Abram, Lot separate Gen 13:9 Is not the whole land before you? Let's part company. If you go to the left, I'll go to the right; if you go to the right, I'll go to the left." [yamiyn (yaw-meen') sama'l (saw-mal') Strong's Numbers] What if Lot had chosen to go right, would Abram have gone east? It's doubtful that Lot would have gone further west - that's the sea. God's choice was obviously for Abram to stay where he was, so let's conclude with God having fixed a fix for Lot to go east since he knew Lot would have chosen the best part - not caring that the people there were Evil
10 Lot looked up and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan was well watered, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, toward Zoar. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.) 11 So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company: 12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom. 13 Now the men of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD. NIV

EvilGen 13:13 Now the men of Sodom were wicked

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Abram IDENTITY, the HebrewGen 14:11 Then the victors plundered Sodom and Gomorrah and carried off all their wealth and food, and went on their homeward way, 12 taking with them Lot-Abram's nephew who lived in Sodom-and all he owned. 13 One of the men who escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, who was camping among the oaks belonging to Mamre the Amorite (brother of Eshcol and Aner, Abram's allies). TLB The first time Abramis awarded aspecific identity. In other words, his household had developed into a specific entity (tribe). This could happen due to Abraham avoided being assimilated into the tribes among which he lived. He lived "among the oaks" as against Lot "who lived in Sodom-and all he owned.We saw (above) in Gen 13:12 that Lot at first that "Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom." Later, however, he moved into the city and he,his household and all he owned became part of them.

In sending away Ishmael,the God of Israel engineered a situation where he would become the arch father of other nation separate from the Hebrews: Gen 21:14 So Abraham got up early the next morning, prepared food for the journey, and strapped a canteen of water to Hagar's shoulders and sent her away with their son. She walked out into the wilderness of Beersheba, wandering aimlessly.15 When the water was gone she left the youth in the shade of a bush 16 and went off and sat down a hundred yards or so away. "I don't want to watch him die," she said, and burst into tears, sobbing wildly. 17 Then God heard the boy crying, and the Angel of God (Messiah see ) called to Hagar from the sky, "Hagar, what's wrong? Don't be afraid! For God has heard the lad's cries as he is lying there. 18 Go and get him and comfort him, for I

will make a great nation from his descendants." TLB

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He also clearly indicated that Isaac's wife's two sons will become two nations, the Hebrew nation (stronger) and the Edomites (weaker):
Gen 25:21 Isaac pleaded with Jehovah to give Rebekah a child, for even after many years of marriage she had no children. Then at last she became pregnant. 22 And it seemed as though children were fighting each other inside her!
"I can't endure this," she exclaimed. So she asked the Lord about it.
23 And he told her, "The sons in your womb shall become two rival nations. One will be stronger than the other; and the older shall be a servant of the younger!" TLB

Then Esau (Esav in Hebrew),acarnalman,notcaringabouthisbirthright (orhavingalimitedhorizonofvision), sold his birthright as 1st born son: Gen 25:30 He said to Jacob, "Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I'm famished!" (That is why he was also called Edom. - Hebrew adom=red - from him came the Edomites) 31 Jacob replied, "First sell me your birthright." 32 "Look, I am about to die," Esau said. "What good is the birthright to me?" 33 But Jacob said, "Swear to me first." So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob. 34 Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left. So Esau despised his birthright. NIV

Isaac confirmed the supremacy of the Jews over the descendants of Esav,otherrelatives (viz.Ishmael'speople) and other nations: Gen 27:27 May many nations be your slaves. Be the master of your brothers. May all your relatives bow low

sbefore you. Cursed are all who curse you, and blessed are all who bless you." TLB

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We see This is basically what the world and the Arabs have done with the Arabs living in Israel's territory. They were turned into a nation, called the Palestinians, to serve as a vehicle to displace the Jews and take the land mandated to them.)

Conditions for AbramGen 15:1 Afterwards Jehovah spoke to Abram in a vision, and this is what he told him: "Don't be fearful, Abram, for I will defend you. And I will give you great blessings." TLB All the Bible translations refer to God saying to Abram, "Don't be fearful." Obviously Abram was threatened, since he was a rich foreigner with a large household and competed with the locals for space and resources.

Abram's HeirGen 15:2 But Abram said, "O Sovereign LORD, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?" 3 And Abram said, "You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir." 4 Then the word of the LORD came to him: "This man will not be your heir, but a son coming from your own body will be your heir." NIV
Note that Abram first specifically mentions that Eliezer of Damascus would be his heir, but then he states in the next verse that a servant in my household will be my heir. Either Eliezer was actually of his household, or a family member living in Damascus. One gets the impression, though, that their is a time-frame between verse 2 & 3 in which something might have happened that removed Eliezer from the scene.
God saying, "a son coming from your own body," still doesn't say who the mother of the son would be.

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