Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.
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Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.
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And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
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And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begot Serug.
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- Luke 3:35 the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah,
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Nahor lived twenty nine years, and begat Terah.…
And Nahor lived twenty nine years, and begat Terah. The father of Abraham, and the first of the patriarchs of this line of Shem that fell off from the true religion to idolatry.
And Nahor lived twenty nine years, and begat Terah. The father of Abraham, and the first of the patriarchs of this line of Shem that fell off from the true religion to idolatry.
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gen 11:25And Nahor lived, after he begat Terah, one hundred and ninteen years,.... In all one hundred and forty eight years; so sensibly did the lives of the patriarchs decrease: in the days of Nahor, the Arabic writers (t) say, was a great earthquake, which had never been observed before; idolaters increasing and offering their children to demons, God raised a tempest like a deluge, which broke their images and destroyed their temples in Arabia, and covered them in heaps of sand, which remained to the days of those writers, as they affirm: in his days it is also said Spain, Portugal, and Arragon were founded (u):
and begat sons and daughters; of whom no other account is given: he died, as a Jewish chronologer says (w), in the one hundred and tenth year of Abraham.
(t) Patricides, p. 15. Elmacinus, p. 30. apud Hottinger. p. 279, 280. (u) Juchasin, fol. 135. 2. (w) R. Gedaliah, ut supra. (fol. 2. 1.)
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Sarug: in whose days St. Epiphanius places the origin…
Sarug: in whose days St. Epiphanius places the origin of idolatry; but Eusebius (Præp. i. v. & 9.) thinks it began in Egypt, among the posterity of Cham. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 20. Serug] The name of a town and region…
20. Serug] The name of a town and region near Haran in Mesopotamia in the land of the upper Euphrates.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 20, 21. And Reu lived two and thirty…
Vers. 20, 21. And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug. Vine-shoot, from sarag, to wind (Gesenius, Lange, Lewis, Murphy); strength, firmness, from the sense of twisting which the root bears (Furst). And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years (in all 239), and begat sons and daughters.
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
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