Genesis 11:25

25 After Terah was born, Nahor lived 119 years. And he 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.

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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 Nahor was born, Serug lived 200 years. And he had other sons and daughters.

24 When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah.

25 After Terah was born, Nahor lived 119 years. And he had other sons and daughters.

26 Terah lived for 70 years. Then he became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.

27 Here is the story of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.