Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah. Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
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Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.
Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
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And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
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And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Terah.
And Nahor lived after he begot Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.
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- Luke 3:34 (v24) the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,
- Joshua 24:2 (v24) 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…
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On v24 Gen 11:24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years,…
Gen 11:24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
Ver. 24. And begat Terah.] Who also at first "served other gods, beyond the flood". {Jos 24:2}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On v24 Nahor was the first patriarch who fell to idolatry.
Nahor was the first patriarch who fell to idolatry.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv24–25 And Abram and Nahor took them wives,.... Very probably…
And Abram and Nahor took them wives,.... Very probably after the death of their elder brother Haran, whose daughters they married, at least one of them did, and some think both:
the name of Abraham's wife was Sarai: it is not said whose daughter she was, unless she is the same with Iscah, the daughter of Haran, and so had two names, Iscah her name before marriage, Sarai after it, Abram calling her "my mistress", as "Sarai" signifies, as she called him my lord: so the Targum of Jonathan, Iscah, this is Sarai; in like manner Jarchi, Baal Hatturim, and other Jewish writers (f), take them to be the same; but according to Gen 20:12 Sarai should be the daughter of Terah, the father of Abraham, by another woman; and so the Arabic writers (g) say,"the mother of Abraham died, whose name was Juna; and Terah married another wife, whose name was Lahazib; she bore him Sarah, whom Abraham afterwards married:"
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and the name of Nahor's wife Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah: so that Nahor married his brother's daughter, which sort of marriage was then allowed of, as formerly that of own brothers and sisters, but afterwards was strictly forbidden in the Levitical law: this account is given of Nahor's wife, as Aben Ezra observes, to show the pedigree of Rebekah, Rachel, and Leah: some think, as before observed, that Abram married the other daughter of his brother Haran, Iscah, and that she is the same with Sarai; and indeed, without supposing that, it is difficult to conceive for what reason this should be observed, that Haran, the father of Milcah, was also the father of Iscah; and if Sarai is not Iscah, no account is given by Moses of her descent, which may seem strange; and it can hardly be thought he would omit it, when it must be so agreeable to his people to know from whom they descended, both by the father's and mother's side.
(f) Bereshit Rabba, sect. 38. fol. 33. 3. 4. (g) Ut supra, (Elmacinus, p. 31. Patricides, p. 17.) apud Hottinger. p. 281.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On v24 24. Terah] The father of Abram. The name has…
24. Terah] The father of Abram. The name has not yet been clearly identified with any locality, or tribe.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On v24 Vers. 24, 25. And Nahor lived nine and twenty…
Vers. 24, 25. And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah. Terach, or turning, tarrying; from tarach, an unused Chaldaean root meaning to delay (Gesenius); singularly appropriate to his future character and history, from which probably the name reverted to him. Ewald renders Terach by "migration, considering Tarach = arach, to stretch out. And Nahor lived after he begat Terah a hundred and nineteen years (148 in all, the shortest liver among the postdiluvian patriarchs), and begat sons and daughters.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v24 General Information:
General Information:
The records in Genesis 11:12-25 have the same format. See how you translated them in Genesis 11:12-13. (See: How to Translate Names and Numbers)
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Abram, Nahor, and Haran
We do not know the birth order of his sons.
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