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make bricks, and burn them thorough- 11.4 h Deut 1.28 rah; 25 and Nahor lived after the birth 11.5 i Gen 18.21 ly.” And they had brick for stone, and 11.6 j Acts 17.26; of one hundred nineteen years, bitumen for mortar. 4 Then they said, Gen 9.19 and had other sons and daughters. “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and 11.7 k Gen 1.26; 26 When Terah had lived seventy 42.23; Ex 4.11; a tower with its top in the heavens, 1 Cor 14.2, 11 years, he became the father of Abram, and let us make a name for ourselves; 11.8 l Lk 1.51; Nahor, and Haran. otherwise we shall be scattered abroad Gen 10.25, 32 m h 11.9 Gen 10.10 Descendants of Terah upon the face of the whole earth.” 5 The 11.10 Lord came down to see the city and n Gen 10.22; 27 Now these are the descendants of the tower, which mortals had built. i 1 Chr 1.17 Terah. Terah was the father of Abram, 6 And the Lord said, “Look, they are Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the one people, and they have all one lan- father of Lot. 28 Haran died before his guage; and this is only the beginning father Terah in the land of his birth, in of what they will do; nothing that they Ur of the Chaldeans. 29 Abram and Na- propose to do will now be impossible hor took wives; the name of Abram’s for them. j 7 Come, let us go down, and wife was Sarai, and the name of Na- confuse their language there, so that hor’s wife was Milcah. She was the they will not understand one another’s daughter of Haran the father of Milcah speech.” k 8 So the Lord scattered them and Iscah. 30 Now Sarai was barren; abroad from there over the face of all she had no child. o the earth, and they left off building 31 Terah took his son Abram and his the city. l 9 Therefore it was called Ba- grandson Lot son of Haran, and his bel, because there the Lord confused a daughter-­in-­law Sarai, his son Abram’s the language of all the earth; and from wife, and they went out together from there the Lord scattered them abroad Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land over the face of all the earth. m of Canaan; but when they came to Ha- ran, they settled there. p 32 The days of Descendants of Terah were two hundred five years; 10 These are the descendants of and Terah died in Haran. Shem. When Shem was one hundred years old, he became the father of Ar- The Call of Abram pachshad two years after the flood; n ‌ Now the Lord said to Abram, 11 and Shem lived after the birth of Ar- 12 “Go from your country and pachshad five hundred years, and had your kindred and your father’s house other sons and daughters. to the land that I will show you. q 2 I 12 When had lived will make of you a great nation, and thirty-­five years, he became the father I will bless you, and make your name of ; 13 and Arpachshad lived after great, so that you will be a blessing. r 3 I the birth of Shelah four hundred three will bless those who bless you, and the years, and had other sons and daugh- one who curses you I will curse; and in ters. you all the families of the earth shall 14 When Shelah had lived thirty be blessed.” b,s years, he became the father of ; 4 So Abram went, as the Lord 15 and Shelah lived after the birth of had told him; and Lot went with Eber four hundred three years, and him. Abram was seventy-­five years t had other sons and daughters. 11.30 o Gen 16.1 old when he departed from Haran. 16 When Eber had lived thirty-­four 11.31 p Gen 15.7; 5 Abram took his wife Sarai and his Neh 9.7; years, he became the father of ; Acts 7.4 brother’s son Lot, and all the posses- 17 and Eber lived after the birth of Pe- 12.1 q Acts 7.3; sions that they had gathered, and leg four hundred thirty years, and had Heb 11.8 the persons whom they had acquired 12.2 r Gen 15.5; other sons and daughters. 17.4, 5; in Haran; and they set forth to go to 18 When Peleg had lived thirty 18.18; 22.17; the land of Canaan. When they had years, he became the father of Reu; 28.14; 32.12; come to the land of Canaan, u 6 Abram 35.11; 46.3 19 and Peleg lived after the birth of Reu s passed through the land to the place at 12.3 Gen 27.29; c two hundred nine years, and had other Ex 23.33; Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that sons and daughters. Num 24.9; time the Canaanites were in the land. v 20 When Reu had lived thirty-­two Gen 18.18; 7 Then the Lord appeared to Abram, 22.18; 26.4; d years, he became the father of ; Acts 3.25; and said, “To your offspring I will 21 and Reu lived after the birth of Serug Gal 3.8 give this land.” So he built there an two hundred seven years, and had oth- 12.4 t Gen 11.27, altar to the Lord, who had appeared 31 w er sons and daughters. 12.5 u Gen 14.14; to him. 8 From there he moved on to 22 When Serug had lived thirty 11, 31 the hill country on the east of Bethel, years, he became the father of Nahor; 12.6 v Heb 11.9; and pitched his tent, with Bethel on Deut 11.30; 23 and Serug lived after the birth of Na- Gen 10.18, 19 the west and Ai on the east; and there hor two hundred years, and had other 12.7 w Gen 17.1; he built an altar to the Lord and in- sons and daughters. 13.15; 17.8; voked the name of the Lord. x 9 And Ps 105.9; 24 When Nahor had lived twenty-­ Gen 13.4 Abram journeyed on by stages toward nine years, he became the father of Te- 12.8 x Gen 13.4 the Negeb.

a 11.9 Heb balal, meaning to confuse b 12.3 Or by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves c 12.6 Or terebinth d 12.7 Heb seed

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