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他拉70岁生亚伯兰

他拉70岁生亚伯兰,拿鹤与哈兰,死于205岁,但是亚伯兰是75岁离开哈兰,为什么说,神使哈兰与他拉都死了,亚伯兰来离开哈兰呢?

你问的这个问题已经有相当多的圣经学者讨论过,并且有希伯来文专家的研究。根据他们的解释,希伯来人在写家谱时,惯例是按照儿子们出生的次序,但有时特别强调某人的尊贵、或与神的关系时,会将较为尊贵的一位列在首先。例如,亚伯兰先生了以实玛利,再生以撒,但是历代志上1:28说,『亚伯拉罕的儿子是以撒、以实玛利。』在此,乃是以撒记在以实玛利之先。又如摩西的姊姊米利暗是最年长,其次是亚伦,最小的才是摩西,那么家谱的排列应该是米利暗、亚伦、摩西。但是,出埃及记6:27记载,要将以色列人从埃及领出来的,乃是先题摩西,再题亚伦。另外,挪亚的三个儿子,按照创世记10:2~21的顺序,先记载雅弗的后代,其次是含,最后才是闪。有学者根据这里的顺序指出,雅弗是老大,含是老二,闪是最小。但是在创6:10, 9:18, 10:1都将闪列在首先,这是因为闪的尊贵,因为亚伯拉罕与以色列族、弥赛亚都是从闪族出来的。

我们认识了这个特例,就知道创11:26并不是照着出生顺序记载的。学者指出哈兰乃是长子,是当他拉七十岁时所生的,其次是拿鹤,最后才是亚伯兰,他是在父亲他拉一百三十岁时所生。所以,在他拉死时,二百零五岁时,亚伯兰年七十五岁答应神的呼召,出吾珥。

Haran was certainly the eldest son of Terah, and he appears to
have been born when Terah was about seventy years of age, and his birth
was followed in successive periods with those of Nahor his second, and
Abram his youngest son. Many have been greatly puzzled with the
account here, supposing because Abram is mentioned first, that therefore
he was the eldest son of Terah: but he is only put first by way of dignity.
An in stance of this we have already seen, Genesis 5:32, where Noah is
represented as having Shem, Ham, and Japheth in this order of succession;
whereas it is evident from other scriptures that Shem was the youngest
son, who for dignity is named first, as Abram is here; and Japheth the
eldest, named last, as Haran is here. Terah died two hundred and five years
old, Genesis 11:32; then Abram departed from Haran when seventy-five
years old, Genesis 12:4; therefore Abram was born, not when his father
Terah was seventy, but when he was one hundred and thirty.
When any case of dignity or pre-eminence is to be marked, then even the
youngest son is set before all the rest, though contrary to the usage of the
Scriptures in other cases. Hence we find Shem, the youngest son of Noah,
always mentioned first; Moses is mentioned before his elder brother
Aaron; and Abram before his two elder brethren Haran and Nahor. These
observations are sufficient to remove all difficulty from this place.