en_map/Abraham_Journey_Part_1/Map_Purpose.md

Purpose of the Map of Abraham's Journey Part 1-

To show Abraham's journey from Ur through Haran and Shechem to Bethel.
To show where Ur and Haran were in relation to each other.
To show where Canaan was in relation to Ur and Haran.
Bodies of water help with this. Mediterranean Sea, Jordan, River, and Euphrates River.
To show where Shechem, Bethel, and Ai were.
To show other important cities in the area. (Babylon and Damascus)

Gen 11:31 Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of his son Haran, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and together they left Ur of the Chaldeans, to go into the land of Canaan. But they came to Haran and stayed there.

Gen 12:4,5 So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him to do, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
5 Abram took Sarai, his wife, Lot, his brother's son, all their possessions that they had accumulated, and the people that they had acquired in Haran. They left to go into the land of Canaan, and came to the land of Canaan.

\v 6 Abram passed through the land as far as Shechem,

\v 8 From there he moved to the hill country to the east of Bethel, where he pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east.