Genesis 11:25-27
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
25 Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years after he begot Terah, and he had other sons and daughters.
26 When Terah was seventy years old, he begot Abram,[a] Nahor and Haran.(A)
II. The Story of the Ancestors of Israel
Terah. 27 These are the descendants of Terah.[b] Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran begot Lot.
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- 11:26 Abram is a dialectal variant of Abraham. God will change his name in view of his new task in 17:4.
- 11:27 Descendants of Terah: elsewhere in Genesis the story of the son is introduced by the name of the father (25:12, 19; 36:1; 37:2). The Abraham-Sarah stories begin (11:27–32) and end with genealogical notices (25:1–18), which concern, respectively, the families of Terah and of Abraham. Most of the traditions in the cycle are from the Yahwist source. The so-called Elohist source (E) is somewhat shadowy, denied by some scholars but recognized by others in passages that duplicate other narratives (20:1–18 and 21:22–34). The Priestly source consists mostly of brief editorial notices, except for chaps. 17 and 23.
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