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Nahor (Hebrew: נָחוֹר – Nāḥōr; Greek: Ναχώρ – Nakhṓr) is the son of Serug according to the Hebrew Bible in Genesis Chapter 11. [1] He is said to have lived to the age of 148 years old [2] [3] or 208 according to the Greek Septuagint (LXII) and had a son, Terah, at the age of 29 (79 in the LXX Vat and LXX Brenton) .
His grandfather was Nahor I, son of Serug. Nahor married the daughter of his brother Haran , Milcah , his niece ( v.29 ). They may all have been born and raised in the city of Ur : the biblical account states that "Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans " ( Genesis 11:28 ).
Serug (Hebrew: שְׂרוּג – Śərūḡ, "branch"; Greek: Σερούχ – Seroúkh) was the son of Reu and the father of Nahor, according to Genesis 11:20–23. He is also the great-grandfather of Abraham , thus the ancestor of the Ishmaelites and the Israelites .
He is listed as the son of Nahor and father of the patriarch Abraham. As such, he is a descendant of Shem's son Arpachshad. Terah is mentioned in Genesis 11:26–27, Book of Joshua 24:2, and 1 Chronicles 1:17–27 of the Hebrew Bible and Luke 3:34–36 in the New Testament.
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The following is a family tree for the descendants of the line of Noah's son Shem, through Abraham to Jacob and his sons. Dashed lines are marriage connections. Not all individuals in this portion of the Bible are given names. For example, one English translation of the Bible states in Genesis 11:13 that "After the birth of Shelah,
She is identified as the grandmother of Rebecca in the Book of Genesis, but some scholars believe that Milcah may have originally been Rebecca ' s mother. They have argued that Bethuel, who is identified as Rebecca's father by the priestly source, was a later addition to the text, and that Rebecca was the daughter of Milcah and Nahor.
His wife was Ora, daughter of 'Ûr, (the son of Kesed) (Jubilees 11:1). [2] According to the Masoretic text (Genesis 11:20), Reu was 32 when Serug was born and lived to the age of 239 (when Abraham was either 18 or 78). The Septuagint and Samaritan Pentateuch state that his age on fathering Serug was 132, and the Septuagint thus gives age at ...