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Genesis 11:32

Genesis 11:32
And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.

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Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Genesis 11:27-32

Here begins the story of Abram, whose name is famous, henceforward, in both Testaments. We have here,

I. His country: Ur of the Chaldees. This was the land of his nativity, an idolatrous country,…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

two hundred and five years For this figure the Samaritan version gives 145, obviously in order to make the year of Abram's departure from Haran (when Abram was 75 years old; see Gen 12:4) coincide…