Genèse 11:17-27

17 Héber vécut, après la naissance de Péleg, quatre cent trente ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.
18 Péleg, âgé de trente ans, engendra Rehu.
19 Péleg vécut, après la naissance de Rehu, deux cent neuf ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.
20 Rehu, âgé de trente-deux ans, engendra Serug.
21 Rehu vécut, après la naissance de Serug, deux cent sept ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.
22 Serug, âgé de trente ans, engendra Nachor.
23 Serug vécut, après la naissance de Nachor, deux cents ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.
24 Nachor, âgé de vingt-neuf ans, engendra Térach.
25 Nachor vécut, après la naissance de Térach, cent dix-neuf ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.
26 Térach, âgé de soixante-dix ans, engendra Abram, Nachor et Haran.
27 Voici la postérité de Térach. Térach engendra Abram, Nachor et Haran. -Haran engendra Lot.

Genèse 11:17-27 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 11

This chapter gives an account of the inhabitants of the earth before the confusion of tongues at Babel, of their speech and language, which was one and the same, and of the place where they dwelt, Ge 11:1,2 and of their design to build a city and tower, to make them a name and keep them together, which they put in execution, Ge 11:3,4 of the notice the Lord took of this affair, and of the method he took to put a stop to their designs, by confounding their speech, and dispersing them abroad upon the face of the earth, Ge 11:5-9 then follows a genealogy of Shem's posterity down to Abraham, Ge 11:10-26 and a particular relation is given of Terah, the father of Abraham, and his family, and of his going forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, in order to go into the land of Canaan, and of his death at Haran by the way, Ge 11:27-32.

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