Genesi 11:23

23 E Serug, dopo che ebbe generato Nahor, visse dugent’anni, e generò figliuoli e figliuole.

Genesi 11:23 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 11:23

And Serug lived, after he begat Nahor, two hundred years,
&c.] The years of his life were two hundred and thirty:

and he begat sons and daughters;
nowhere else mentioned: he died, according to the above Jewish writer ^F15, in the one hundredth year of Abraham, and in his days, according to the eastern writers ^F16, idolatry began, and the kingdom of Damascus was set up ^F17; and Samirus, king of the Chaldeans, invented weights and measures, weaving silk, and the art of dying ^F19.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 R. Gedaliah, Shalshalet. fol. 2. 1.
F16 Apud Hyde, ut supra. (Hist. Relig. Pers. c. 2. 57.)
F17 Juchasin, fol. 135. 2.
F19 Abulpharag. Hist. Dynast. p. 18.

Genesi 11:23 In-Context

21 E Reu, dopo che ebbe generato Serug, visse dugensette anni, e generò figliuoli e figliuole.

22 E Serug, essendo vivuto trent’anni, generò Nahor.

23 E Serug, dopo che ebbe generato Nahor, visse dugent’anni, e generò figliuoli e figliuole.

24 E Nahor, essendo vivuto ventinove anni, generò Tare.

25 E Nahor, dopo ch’ebbe generato Tare, visse cendiciannove anni, e generò figliuoli e figliuole.