24 Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot (A)Terah.

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

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24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:

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26 Now Terah lived seventy years, and (A)begot [a]Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Terah’s Descendants

27 This is the genealogy of Terah: Terah begot (B)Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begot Lot. 28 And Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans. 29 Then Abram and Nahor took wives: the name of Abram’s wife was (C)Sarai,[b] and the name of Nahor’s wife, (D)Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah. 30 But (E)Sarai was barren; she had no child.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 11:26 Abraham, Gen. 17:5
  2. Genesis 11:29 Sarah, Gen. 17:15

26 After Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram,(A) Nahor(B) and Haran.(C)

Abram’s Family

27 This is the account(D) of Terah’s family line.

Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor(E) and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.(F) 28 While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans,(G) in the land of his birth. 29 Abram and Nahor(H) both married. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai,(I) and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milkah;(J) she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milkah and Iskah. 30 Now Sarai was childless because she was not able to conceive.(K)

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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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(A)I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And in (B)you all the families of the earth shall be (C)blessed.”

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I will bless those who bless you,
    and whoever curses you I will curse;(A)
and all peoples on earth
    will be blessed through you.(B)[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 12:3 Or earth / will use your name in blessings (see 48:20)

And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

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17 “I(A) see Him, but not now;
I behold Him, but not near;
(B)A Star shall come out of Jacob;
(C)A Scepter shall rise out of Israel,
And [a]batter the brow of Moab,
And destroy all the sons of [b]tumult.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 24:17 shatter the forehead
  2. Numbers 24:17 Heb. Sheth, Jer. 48:45

17 “I see him, but not now;
    I behold him, but not near.(A)
A star will come out of Jacob;(B)
    a scepter will rise out of Israel.(C)
He will crush the foreheads of Moab,(D)
    the skulls[a](E) of[b] all the people of Sheth.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 24:17 Samaritan Pentateuch (see also Jer. 48:45); the meaning of the word in the Masoretic Text is uncertain.
  2. Numbers 24:17 Or possibly Moab, / batter
  3. Numbers 24:17 Or all the noisy boasters

17 I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.

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24 (A)Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah, 25 (B)Eber, Peleg, Reu, 26 Serug, Nahor, Terah, 27 and (C)Abram, who is Abraham.

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24 Shem,(A) Arphaxad,[a] Shelah,

25 Eber, Peleg, Reu,

26 Serug, Nahor, Terah

27 and Abram (that is, Abraham).

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 1:24 Hebrew; some Septuagint manuscripts Arphaxad, Cainan (see also note at Gen. 11:10)

24 Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah,

25 Eber, Peleg, Reu,

26 Serug, Nahor, Terah,

27 Abram; the same is Abraham.

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