Holy Scripture

Genesis 11:31

A church father on this verse
“Since, however, I have made mention of the patriarch, let us put before your good selves today's reading, if you do not mind, so as to explain it and thus see the extraordinary degree of the good man's virtue. "Thara [Thera]," the text says, "took his sons Abraham and Nachor, his son's son Lot, and his daughter-in-law…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — HOMILIES ON GENESIS 31.7

Source: Septuagint

Original

31And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, the son of his son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and led them forth out of the land of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan, and they came as far as Haran, and he dwelt there.

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29And Abram and Nahor took to themselves wives, the name of the wife of Abram was Sarai, and the name of the wife of Nahor, Milcah, daughter of Haran, and he was the father of Milcah, the father of Iscah.

30And Sarai was barren, and did not bear children.

— Genesis 11:31 —

32And all the days of Terah in the land of Haran were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.

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