Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.
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Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.
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And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
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And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor.
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- Joshua 24:2 Joshua said to all the people, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor. They served other gods.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 11:22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat…
Gen 11:22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
Ver. 22. And begat Nahor.] Who, first of the patriarchs, fell to idolatry: for Laban sware by Nahor’s gods.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Now these are the generations of Terah,.... Or the…
Now these are the generations of Terah,.... Or the genealogy of his posterity, which is a very short one; for it only gives an account of his three sons as before:
Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran: and of three grand children, Lot, Milcah, and Iscah, the children of Haran; and chiefly for the sake of Abram it is given, and indeed the above genealogy of Shem, which ends with him; and of whom and whose posterity the remaining part of this book of Genesis treats:
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and Haran begat Lot: of whom we have some further account in Gen 13:1.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 22. Nahor] The name here of Abram’s grandfather, as…
22. Nahor] The name here of Abram’s grandfather, as also, in Gen_11:26, of Abram’s brother (cf. Gen_22:20, Jos_24:2). Very similar personal names are found in early Assyrian business documents.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 22, 23. And Serug lived thirty years, and…
Vers. 22, 23. And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor. Pantie. (Gesenius); from nachar, to breathe hard, to snort. Piercer, slayer (Furst); from an unused root signifying to Bore through. And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years (or 230 in all), and begat sons and daughters.
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