Verse 29
Genesis 11:29
Bible in Basic English
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And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּקַּ֨ח אַבְרָ֧ם וְ/נָח֛וֹר לָ/הֶ֖ם נָשִׁ֑ים שֵׁ֤ם אֵֽשֶׁת אַבְרָם֙ שָׂרָ֔י וְ/שֵׁ֤ם אֵֽשֶׁת נָחוֹר֙ מִלְכָּ֔ה בַּת הָרָ֥ן אֲבִֽי מִלְכָּ֖ה וַֽ/אֲבִ֥י יִסְכָּֽה
English Translation
And Abram took Nahor and their wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah.
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Chapter 11 Context
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And all the earth had one language and one tongue.
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And it came about that in their wandering from the east, they came to a stretch of flat country in t...
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And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for s...
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And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let...
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And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building.
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And the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language; and this is only the star...
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Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to mak...
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So the Lord God (Elohim) sent them away into every part of the earth: and they gave up building thei...
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So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all languages and from there th...
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These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachs...
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And after the birth of Arpachshad, Shem went on living for five hundred years, and had sons and daug...
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And Arpachshad was thirty-five years old when he became the father of Shelah:
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And after the birth of Shelah, Arpachshad went on living for four hundred and three years, and had s...
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And Shelah was thirty years old when he became the father of Eber:
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And after the birth of Eber, Shelah went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons an...
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And Eber was thirty-four years old when he became the father of Peleg:
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And after the birth of Peleg, Eber went on living for four hundred and thirty years, and had sons an...
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And Peleg was thirty years old when he became the father of Reu:
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And after the birth of Reu, Peleg went on living for two hundred and nine years, and had sons and da...
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And Reu was thirty-two years old when he became the father of Serug:
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And after the birth of Serug, Reu went on living for two hundred and seven years, and had sons and d...
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And Serug was thirty years old when he became the father of Nahor:
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And after the birth of Nahor, Serug went on living for two hundred years, and had sons and daughters...
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And Nahor was twenty-nine years old when he became the father of Terah:
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And after the birth of Terah, Nahor went on living for a hundred and nineteen years, and had sons an...
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And Terah was seventy years old when he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
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These are the generations of Terah: Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was t...
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And death came to Haran when he was with his father Terah in the land of his birth, Ur of the Chalde...
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And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of N...
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And Sarai had no child.
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And Terah took Abram, his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, the wife o...
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And all the years of Terah's life were two hundred and five: and Terah came to his end in Haran.
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