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Genesis 11:20-21

Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug. Reu lived two hundred seven years after he became the father of Serug, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.

    Reu lived two hundred seven years after he became the father of Serug, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

  • KJV King James Version

    And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:

    And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.

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  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begot Serug.

    And Reu lived after he begot Serug two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.

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  • Luke 3:35 (v20) 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 On vv20–21 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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Genesis 11:25

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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 On v20 Sarug: in whose days St. Epiphanius places the origin…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On v20 20. Serug] The name of a town and region…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On v20 Vers. 20, 21. And Reu lived two and thirty…
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v20 General Information:
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