Confused on Nahor and Haran
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First the easy part. The name of Haran and the name of the town of Haran are English h*m*nyms but are actually spelt differently in the Hebrew language. So, the town was not named after Abram's brother, Haran. The 'town of Nahor' is simply the town where Nahor lived, Haran.
Genesis 11:26 says that Haran was born and died in Ur of the Chaldees. Although the city of Ur was certainly ancient, the Chaldeans did not inhabit the area until the ninth century BCE, which tells us that the passage was not actually written until some time after the ninth century BCE. Ur and Haran were the two principal cities of the moon god, Sin, and some scholars see this tradition as reflecting ancient traditions about the migration of the Sin cult from Ur to Haran and then into Canaan.
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In the Bible, it states "Terah, Abram, Sarai, and Lot went to Haran, Nahor never left Ur, and was not mentioned afterward, God is specific in His wording. Get a load of this, Nahor was Terah's father, and when you say "my country", it's usually where you were born and raised. Abram was there 60 years in Ur. Seventy-five when he left Haran.
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