Genesis - 11:25



25 Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of sons and daughters.

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Explanation and meaning of Genesis 11:25.

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And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Nachor lived after he begot Thare, a hundred and nineteen years: and begot sons and daughters.
And Nahor lived after he had begotten Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.
And Nahor liveth after his begetting Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
And after the birth of Terah, Nahor went on living for a hundred and nineteen years, and had sons and daughters:
And Nahor lived after he begot Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.
Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and fathered sons and daughters.
And after he conceived Terah, Nahor lived for one hundred and nineteen years, and he conceived sons and daughters.
Et vixit Nachor, postquam genuit Thare, novemdecim annos et centum annos: et genuit filios et filias.

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Historical Commentaries

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And Nahor lived, after he begat Terah, one hundred and ninteen years,.... In all one hundred and forty eight years; so sensibly did the lives of the patriarchs decrease: in the days of Nahor, the Arabic writers (t) say, was a great earthquake, which had never been observed before; idolaters increasing and offering their children to demons, God raised a tempest like a deluge, which broke their images and destroyed their temples in Arabia, and covered them in heaps of sand, which remained to the days of those writers, as they affirm: in his days it is also said Spain, Portugal, and Arragon were founded (u):
and begat sons and daughters; of whom no other account is given: he died, as a Jewish chronologer says (w), in the one hundred and tenth year of Abraham.
(t) Patricides, p. 15. Elmacinus, p. 30. apud Hottinger. p. 279, 280. (u) Juchasin, fol. 135. 2. (w) R. Gedaliah, ut supra. (fol. 2. 1.)

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