1358. Abram, Nahor, and Haran were actual people after whom nations that were idolaters were also named, as is clear from the historical sections of the Word. That this was so in the case of Nahor has been shown already, for the city itself was called 'the city of Nahor', Genesis 24:10. At that time cities were nothing else than families dwelling together; and many families constituted a nation. That many nations were born from Abraham is clear not only from the descendants of Ishmael, who were the Ishmaelites, but also from the descendants of his many sons born to his wife Keturah, whose names are given in Genesis 25:1-4.

The word 'straw,' as in Genesis 24:25, signifies scientific truths, because it is food for camels.

In Isaiah 11:6, this signifies the Word in the letter, which is perverted by hellish falsity, but cannot be perverted people who are in truths from good.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 3114; Exodus 24, 25)