Genesis - 11:24

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24 Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.

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Explanation and meaning of Genesis 11:24.

Differing Translations

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And Nachor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Thare.
And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah.
And Nahor liveth nine and twenty years, and begetteth Terah.
And Nahor was twenty-nine years old when he became the father of Terah:
And so Nahor lived for twenty-nine years, and then he conceived Terah.
Et vixit Nachor novem et viginti annos, et genuit Thare.

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Historical Commentaries

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And Nahor lived twenty nine years, and begat Terah. The father of Abraham, and the first of the patriarchs of this line of Shem that fell off from the true religion to idolatry.

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