The third doubtful period in Hebrew chronology lies between Abraham and his father Terah, the question being the age of Terah at Abraham’s birth. Some authorities make it 70 years; others, 130. The proof texts are――(a.) Gen. 11: 26; “Terah lived 70 years and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.”――――(b.) Gen. 11: 32; “The days of Terah were 205 years; and Terah died in Haran.”――――(c.) Acts 7: 4; “Abram came out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Haran; and from thence, _after his father was dead_, he removed into this land wherein ye now dwell.”――――(d.) Gen. 12: 4; “Abram was 75 years old when he departed out of Haran.”――――The difficulty is that if Abram was born when his father was 70 and lived with him till his death at the age of 205, he should have been 135 and not merely 75 when his father died and he went into Canaan.――――To surmount this difficulty some construe the text (a.) to mean that Terah lived 70 years before the birth of his first son; that Abram was not his first-born but is named first on account of his greater prominence in history and in character; and that Abram was not born till his father was 130.――――Others assume that Stephen made the slight mistake of supposing that Terah was dead when Abram left Haran for Canaan, misled by the circumstance that the historian, in order to dispose of his case, narrated Terah’s death _before_ he spoke of Abram’s emigration to Canaan, although (as they assume) it in fact occurred 60 years afterwards.――――Others assume an error in the number of years assigned as the full age of Terah, making it 145 instead of 205――the Samaritan text giving these figures.