Genesis 11:23

23 After Serug had Nahor, he lived 200 more years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 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.

Genesis 11:23 In-Context

21 After Reu had Serug, he lived 207 more years and had other sons and daughters.

22 When Serug was thirty years old, he had Nahor.

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.