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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
And Nahor lived twenty nine years, and begat Terah. The father of Abraham, and the first of the patriarchs of this line of Shem that fell off from the true religion to idolatry.
And Nahor lived…
We have here a genealogy, not an endless genealogy, for here it ends in Abram, the friend of God, and leads further to Christ, the promised seed, who was the son of Abram, and from Abram the genealogy…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
Serug The name of a town and region near Haran in Mesopotamia in the land of the upper Euphrates.