as we journeyed, from Haran, by
the way of jersh Jurshon, to come th to the land of canaan. Now I
Abram, built an altar unto the Lord, in the land of Jurshon and made an
offiring unto the Lord and prayed that the famine, might be turned away from my
fathers house, that they might not perish; and then we passed from Jurshon
through the land unto the place of Sichem . . . (Book
of Abraham Manuscript, circa July–circa November 1835–C [Abraham 1:1–2:18]:9-10)