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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
Now these are the generations of Terah,.... Or the genealogy of his posterity, which is a very short one; for it only gives an account of his three sons as before:
Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and…
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
Nahor The name here of Abram's grandfather, as also, in Gen 11:11, of Abram's brother (cf. Gen 22:20; Jos 24:2). Very similar personal names are found in early Assyrian business documents.