Genesis 11:26
New International Version
After Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.

New Living Translation
After Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

English Standard Version
When Terah had lived 70 years, he fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Berean Standard Bible
When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

King James Bible
And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

New King James Version
Now Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

New American Standard Bible
Terah lived seventy years, and fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

NASB 1995
Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.

NASB 1977
And Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.

Legacy Standard Bible
And Terah lived 70 years and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Amplified Bible
After Terah had lived seventy years, he became the father of Abram and Nahor and Haran [his firstborn].

Christian Standard Bible
Terah lived 70 years and fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Terah lived 70 years and fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

American Standard Version
And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And Terakh lived seventy and five years and begot Abram and Nakhor and Haran.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Tharrha lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor, and Arrhan.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Thare lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor, and Aran.

English Revised Version
And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Terah was 70 years old when he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Good News Translation
After Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

International Standard Version
When Terah had lived 70 years, he fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Literal Standard Version
And Terah lives seventy years, and begets Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Majority Standard Bible
When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

New American Bible
When Terah was seventy years old, he begot Abram, Nahor and Haran.

NET Bible
When Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

New Revised Standard Version
When Terah had lived seventy years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

New Heart English Bible
Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

World English Bible
Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Young's Literal Translation
And Terah liveth seventy years, and begetteth Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

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Context
Genealogy from Shem to Abram
25And after he had become the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters. 26When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Cross References
Luke 3:34
the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,

Genesis 11:25
And after he had become the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.

Joshua 24:2
And Joshua said to all the people, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'Long ago your fathers, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates and worshiped other gods.


Treasury of Scripture

And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

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Genesis 12:4,5
So 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 22:20-24
And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor; …

Genesis 29:4,5
And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they said, Of Haran are we…

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Genesis 11
1. One language in the world.
2. The building of Babel.
5. It is interrupted by the confusion of tongues, and the builders dispersed.
10. The generations of Shem.
27. The generations of Terah, the father of Abram.
31. Terah, with Abram and Lot, move from Ur to Haran.














Verse 26. - And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram. First named on account of his spiritual pre-eminence. If Abram was Terah's eldest son, then, as Abram was seventy-five years of age when Terah died (Genesis 12:4), Terah's whole life could only have been 145 years. But Terah lived to the age of 205 years (Genesis 11:32); therefore Abram was born in Terah's 130th year. This, however, makes it surprising that Abraham should have reckoned it impossible for him to have a son at 100 years (Genesis 17:17); only, after having lived so long in childless wedlock, it was not strange that he should feel somewhat doubtful of any issue by Sarai. Kalisch believes that Stephen (Acts 7:4) made a mistake in saying Terah died before his son's migration from Charran, and that he really survived that event by sixty years; while the Samaritan text escapes the difficulty by shortening the life of Terah to 145 years. And Nahor, who must have been younger than Haran, since he married Haran's daughter. And Haran, who, as the eldest, must have been born in Terah's seventieth year. Thus the second family register, like the flint, concludes after ten generations with the birth of three sons, who, like Noah's, are mentioned not in the order of their ages, but of their spiritual pre-eminence.

From this table it appears that 292 years, according to the Hebrew text, passed away between the Flood and the birth, or 292 +75 = = 367 between the Flood and the call of Abraham. Reckoning, however, the age of Torah at Abram's birth as 130 (vide Exposition), the full period between the Deluge and the patriarch's departure from Haran will be 367 + 60 = = 427 years, which, allowing five pairs to each family, Murphy computes, would in the course of ten generations yield a population of 15,625,000 souls; or, supposing a rate of increase equal to that of Abraham's posterity in Egypt during the 400 years that elapsed from the call to the exodus, the inhabitants of the world in the time of Abraham would be between seven and eight millions. It must, however, be remembered that an element of uncertainty enters into all computations based upon even the Hebrew text. The age of Terah at the birth (apparently) of Abram is put down at seventy. But it admits of demonstration that Abram was born in the 130th year of Terah. What guarantee then do we possess that in every instance the registered son was the firstborn? In the case of Arphaxad this is almost implied in the statement that he was born two years after the Flood. But if the case of Eber were parallel with that of Terah, and Joktan were the son that he begat in his thirty-fourth year, then obviously the birth of Peleg, like that of Abram, may have happened sixty years later; in which case it is apparent that any reckoning which proceeded on the minute verbal accuracy of the registered numbers would be entirely at fault. This consideration might have gone far to explain the wide divergence between the numbers of the Samaritan and Septuagint as compared with the Hebrew text, had it not been that they both agree with it in setting down seventy as the age of Terah at the date of Abram's birth. The palpable artificiality also of these later tables renders them even less worthy of credit than the Hebrew. The introduction by the LXX. of Cainan as the son of Arphaxad, though seemingly confirmed by Luke (Luke 3:35, 36), is clearly an interpolation. It does not occur in the LXX. version of 1 Chronicles 1:24, and is not found in either the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Targums or the ancient versions, in Josephus or Philo, or in the Codex Beza of the Gospel of Luke. Its appearance in Luke (and probably also in the LXX.) can only be explained as an interpolation. Wordsworth is inclined to regard it as authentic in Luke, and to suppose that Cainaan was excluded from the Mosaic table either to render it symmetrical, as Luke's table is rendered symmetrical by its insertion, or because of some moral offence, which, though necessitating his expulsion from a Hebrew register, would not prevent his reappearance in his proper place under the gospel.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
When Terah
תֶ֖רַח (ṯe·raḥ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 8646: Terah -- Abraham's father, also a place in the desert

was
וַֽיְחִי־ (way·ḥî-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2421: To live, to revive

70
שִׁבְעִ֣ים (šiḇ·‘îm)
Number - common plural
Strong's 7657: Seventy (a cardinal number)

years old,
שָׁנָ֑ה (šā·nāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8141: A year

he became the father of
וַיּ֙וֹלֶד֙ (way·yō·w·leḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

Abram,
אַבְרָ֔ם (’aḇ·rām)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 87: Abram -- 'exalted father', the original name of Abraham

Nahor,
נָח֖וֹר (nā·ḥō·wr)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 5152: Nochor

and Haran.
הָרָֽן׃ (hā·rān)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 2039: Haran -- 'mountaineer', a brother of Abram, also an Israelite


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