KJV King James Version
Now these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
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Genesis 11:27
Now these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.
WEB World English Bible
Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.
ASV American Standard Version
Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran begat Lot.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And these are births of Terah: Terah hath begotten Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran hath begotten Lot;
Surrounding context — Genesis 11
24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 Now these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife [was] Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
30 But Sarai was barren; she [had] no child.
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וְאֵ֙לֶּה֙H428 · el.lehtheseתּוֹלְדֹ֣תH8435 · to.le.dahgenerationתֶּ֔רַחH8646 · te.rachTerahתֶּ֚רַחH8646 · te.rachTerahהוֹלִ֣ידH3205 · ya.ladto begetאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]אַבְרָ֔םH87 · av.ramAbramאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]נָח֖וֹרH5152 · na.chorNahorוְאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הָרָ֑ןH2039 · ha.ranHaranוְהָרָ֖ןH2039 · ha.ranHaranהוֹלִ֥ידH3205 · ya.ladto begetאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]לֽוֹט׃H3876 · lotLot
Cross-references
Genesis 14:12And they took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.Genesis 12:4So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram [was] seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.Genesis 11:31And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.2 Peter 2:7And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:Genesis 13:1-11And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.Genesis 19:1-29And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing [them] rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
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