For' now they were not only divided in place, but in Lan- guage too, and ſo were unfitted for thoſe Confederacies and Cor- reſpondencies which they mainly deſigned, and for the mutnal Comfort and Help of one another, which otherwiſe they might in good meaſure have enjoyed. : : |
9 Therefore is the name of it called * Babel, be- * That is, cauſe the LORD did there confound the language of confuſion, all the earth : and from thence did the LORD ſcatter chem abroad upon. the face of all the earth. LE
10 © * Thele are the generations of Shem q: Shem * Chap: was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two 1032. . years after the flood. | x Chron;
7 Not all of them, as appears both from the next verſe,and from ** 77: the former chapter ; but of thoſe who were the Seminary of the Church, and the Progenitors of Chriſt.
11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years r; and begat ſons and daughters.
r So that he lived almoſt all the time of Abraham ; which was a ſingular Bleſſing both to himſelf, who hereby ſaw his Children of the renth Generation ; and to the Church of God, which by = —_ enjoyed ths Counſel and Condu& of fo great a Pa«
i2 And Arphaxad lived five and thirtie years, and begat Salah.
13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah, four hundred and three *years, and begat ſons and daugh- 14 And Salah lived thirtie years, and begat Eber.
I5 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hun- dred and three years, and begat ſons and daughters,
16 * And Eber lived four and thirtie years and be- gat * Peleg.
I- And Eber lived after he begat Peleg, four hun-
*; Chron: T1: 19. * Called. Luk:3:15, years s, and begat fons and daughters. Phalec; s So that he was the longeſt liv'd ofall the Patriarchs which were orn afcer the Flood. 18 And Peleg lived thirtie years, and begat Reu- 19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu, two hundred and nine years, and begat ſons and daughters. 20 And Reu lived ewo and thirtie ycars, and begat M SCrug. 21 AndReu lived after he begat Serug, two hundred and ſeven years, and begat fons and daughters. 22 And Serug lived tiurtie years, and begat Nahor. | 223 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor, two hun-
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24 And Nahor 7 lived nine and twentie years, and | begar * Terah- * Luke 3. ; The firſt Patriarch who fe11 to Tdolatry. 34.Thara,
25 And Nahor live after he begat Terah, an hun- dred and nineteen years, and begat ſons and daughe TCIS.
26 And Terah lived ſeventie Abram x, 'Nahor, and Harav. . 2.i1Chre}
( i.e.) Began to beget, as Ger: 5: 32. «x Who is firſt named 1: 26. in order of Dignity, ( for which cauſe She is put before Ham and, Japheth, and Moſes before Aaron ) not in order of time, which ſeems to be this ; Haro? probably was the eldeſt, becauſe Nzhor mar- ried his Daughter ; Nz{or the fecond ; and Abram certainly was the youngeſt, becauſe Terah, Airan's Father lived rwo hundred and five years, verſe 32. and 4bram after his Father's Death, A#s 7: 4. went out of Harau, when he was ſeventy five years old, Gen. : 2,
4, 5. therefore he was not begotten in Tera's ſeventieth Year, when Terah began to beget his Sons. +s here is faid, but in his one hundred and thiztieth Year,and fo. there remains ſeventy five Years preciſely to Abrhns departure. And Sarai, Haraz's Daughter was. bur ren Years younger than Abram, Gen: 17: 17. and therefore Hz- ran was Abrams elder Brother.
27 4 Now theſe are the generations of Terah : Te- rah begat Abram, Nahar, and Haran : and Haran begat Lot. rs
28 And Haran died before his father Terah 7 in
the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Caldees, _ 9 (4. e. ) In the preſence and during the life of his father. | 29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives : the
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b See Gen. 16: x, 2. and 18.. 11, 12.
21 And Terah rook Abram his ſon c, and Lot the ſon of Haran, his fons ſon, and Sarai his daughter in law, his ſon Abrams wife ; and they went forth with them + from * Ur of the Caldees, to go into the land of Canaan ; and they came unto Haran 4, and
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c See Joſ: 24. 2. Nehem: 9. 7. 1 Chron. 1: 26. Being informed by his Son of the command of God, he did not deſpiſe it, becauſe it came to him by the hands of his inferiour, bur chearfully obey- eth it ; and therefore he is ſo honourably mentioned as the Head and Governour of the Afftion. + (7.e.) Terah and Abram went with Lot and Sarai, as their Heads and Guides. d Called Charran, Hs 7: 4+ and by the Romans Carre, a place in Meſopotamia ſtrict- ly fo calied, in the way to Canaan, and near to it, well known by Craſſus his defeat there, See Gen: 24: 10. and 28: 10. and 29. 4. e Or, reſted or abode, being detained there for a ſeaſon ; peradven- ture by Trrah's diſeaſe, which begun there, for the next verſe tells us of his death. ; |
32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and
five years: and Terah died in Haran. | C H,A P. XII