And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
And Serug liveth thirty years, and begetteth Nahor.
And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor.
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
Indeed, Sarug lived thirty years and begot Nachor. The seventy interpreters have it one hundred and thirty.
Bede· Commentary on Genesis (Hexaemeron), 735patristic
And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor. The grandfather of Abraham, one of the same name was Abraham's brother, Gen 11:26.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
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Joshua 24:2And Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your fathers, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates and…
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But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods…
Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?”
and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a…
May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.
So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.
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And Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your fathers, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates and worshiped other gods.
