Abraham 1: 20

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THE BOOK OF ABRAHAM
TRANSLATED FROM THE PAPYRUS, BY JOSEPH SMITH

CHAPTER 1

20 Behold, Potiphar’s Hill was in the land of ^aUr, of Chaldea. And the Lord broke down the altar of Elkenah, and of the gods of the land, and utterly destroyed them, and smote the priest that he died; and there was great mourning in Chaldea, and also in the court of Pharaoh; which Pharaoh signifies king by royal blood.

Footnotes

20a

Gen. 11: 28.

28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the ^aChaldees.

Abr. 1: 1.

1 In the land of the ^aChaldeans, at the residence of my fathers, I, ^bAbraham, saw that it was needful for me to obtain another place of ^cresidence;

Abr. 2: 4 (1-4).

4 Therefore I left the land of ^aUr, of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and I took Lot, my brother’s son, and his wife, and Sarai my wife; and also my ^bfather followed after me, unto the land which we denominated Haran.