And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
And Reu liveth two and thirty years, and begetteth Serug.
And Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Serug.
Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Voices2
Now Reu lived thirty-two years and begot Sarug. The seventy interpreters have it one hundred and thirty-two.
Bede· Commentary on Genesis (Hexaemeron), 735patristic
And Reu lived thirty two years, and begat Serug. He is thought to give name to a city called Sarug, which, according to the Arabic geographer (i), was near Charrae, or Haran, in Chaldea; and another Arabic writer (j) speaks of a city called to this day "Sarug", which he places in Mesopotamia. (i) Apud Bochart. Phaleg. l. 2. c. 14. col. 95. (j) Comment. ad Tab. Ilchanic apud Hyde, Hist. Relig. Pers. c. 2. 57.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
The verses this one reaches2
the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah,
Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.
The walk2
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Luke 3:35the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah,
leads to
Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber.
When Arphaxad was 35 years old, he became the father of Shelah.
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
