Call of Abraham

1921 BCAge of the Patriarchs

The covenant begins.

The facts

Dates	1921 BC
Scripture	Gen. 12:1-3
Era	Age of the Patriarchs
Source	Chart + scripture

Where this sits on the chart

Call of Abraham falls 2083 years out from Creation at the centre, inside the Age of the Patriarchs arc. On the printed chart you can put a finger here and read straight outward to see what the rest of the world was doing in the same moment.

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Who else was alive

Rise of the Minoan civilization on Crete2000 BC The beginning of the Middle Kingdom in Egypt2000 BC – 1700 BC And founder of the silk industry2000 BC Abraham1996 BC – 1821 BC Great colonizer Emperor YU1919 BC Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed1898 BC Isaac1896 BC – 1716 BC The Binding of Isaac(Akedah)1891 BC

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