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Genesis 11:31-32 KJV
Genesis · chapter 11 · verses 31–32
31And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there. 32And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.Genesis 11:31-32 · King James Version
Genesis 11:31-32 in context
29And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
30But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
31And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
32And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
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Key words (Strong's)
- hundredmêʼâha hundredH3967 →
- hundredshâneha yearH8141 →
- TerahTerachTerach, the father of AbrahamH8646 →
- AbramʼAbrâmAbram, the original name of AbrahamH87 →
- HaranHârânHaran, the name of two menH2039 →
- SaraiSâraySarai, the wife of AbrahamH8297 →
- forthyâtsâʼto go out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and…H3318 →
- tooklâqachto takeH3947 →
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Here begins the story of Abram, whose name is famous, henceforward, in both Testaments. We have here, I. His country: Ur of the Chaldees. This was the land of his nativity, an idolatrous country, where even the children of Eber themselves had degenerated.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 27-32