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been long established and widely spread. 

 The memorable and mysterious journey 

 which brought Terah into Haran on his 

 way to Canaan,* was a journey beginning 

 in that ancient home, Ur, already known as 

 "of the Chaldees." And when the great 

 figure of his son Abraham appears upon 

 the scene, we find ourselves already in the 

 presence of the Monarchy of Egypt, and 

 of the advanced civilization of the Pharaohs. 

 In the same narrative, on another side, 

 we come into the presence of one of 

 those great military Kingdoms of the East 

 which in succession occupy so large a space 

 in the history of the ancient world. Chedor- 

 laomer, with his tributary Princes, was then 



* Gen. xi. 31. 

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