Genesis 11:25

25 After Nahor had Terah, he lived 119 more years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:25 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 11:25

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 F20 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 F21:

and begat sons and daughters;
of whom no other account is given: he died, as a Jewish chronologer says F23, in the one hundred and tenth year of Abraham.


FOOTNOTES:

F20 Patricides, p. 15. Elmacinus, p. 30. apud Hottinger. p. 279, 280.
F21 Juchasin, fol. 135. 2.
F23 R. Gedaliah, ut supra. (fol. 2. 1.)

Genesis 11:25 In-Context

23 After Serug had Nahor, he lived 200 more years and had other sons and daughters.
24 When Nahor was twenty-nine years old, he had Terah.
25 After Nahor had Terah, he lived 119 more years and had other sons and daughters.
26 When Terah was seventy years old, he had Abram, Nahor, and Haran. The Family Tree of Terah
27 This is the story of Terah. Terah had Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
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