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Genesis 11:31
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29 Then Abram and Nahor took wives: the name of Abram’s wife was aSarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife, bMilcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah.  
30 Buta Sarai was barren; she had no child.  
31 And Terah atook his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out with them from bUr of the Chaldeans to go to cthe land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there.  
32 So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Genesis 11:31

Sarai his daughter-in-law—the same as Iscah [Genesis 11:29], granddaughter of Terah, probably by a second wife, and by early usages considered marriageable to her uncle, Abraham.

they came unto Haran—two days' journey south-southeast from Ur, on the direct road to the ford of the Euphrates at Rakka, the nearest and most convenient route to Palestine.




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Genesis 11:31:

Genesis 20:12
Isaiah 37:12
Ezekiel 27:23

 

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