Genesis 11:27
New International Version
This is the account of Terah’s family line. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.

New Living Translation
This is the account of Terah’s family. Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.

English Standard Version
Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot.

Berean Standard Bible
This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.

King James Bible
Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.

New King James Version
This is the genealogy of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begot Lot.

New American Standard Bible
Now these are the records of the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot.

NASB 1995
Now these are the records of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran; and Haran became the father of Lot.

NASB 1977
Now these are the records of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran; and Haran became the father of Lot.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran became the father of Lot.

Amplified Bible
Now these are the records of the descendants of Terah. Terah was the father of Abram (Abraham), Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.

Christian Standard Bible
These are the family records of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran fathered Lot.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
These are the family records of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran fathered Lot.

American Standard Version
Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran begat Lot.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And these are the generations of Terakh: Terakh begot Abram and Nakhor and Haran, and Haran begot Lot.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And these are the generations of Tharrha. Tharrha begot Abram and Nachor, and Arrhan; and Arrhan begot Lot.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And these are the generations of Thare: Thare begot Abram, Nachor, and Aran. And Aran begot Lot.

English Revised Version
Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
This is the account of Terah and his descendants. Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran was the father of Lot.

Good News Translation
These are the descendants of Terah, who was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran was the father of Lot,

International Standard Version
Now these are the family records of Terah: Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot.

Literal Standard Version
And these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah has begotten Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran has begotten Lot;

Majority Standard Bible
This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.

New American Bible
These are the descendants of Terah. Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran begot Lot.

NET Bible
This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.

New Revised Standard Version
Now these are the descendants of Terah. Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.

New Heart English Bible
Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.

Webster's Bible Translation
Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran: and Haran begat Lot.

World English Bible
Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.

Young's Literal Translation
And these are births of Terah: Terah hath begotten Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran hath begotten Lot;

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Context
Terah's Descendants
27This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot. 28During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.…

Cross References
Genesis 11:31
And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.

Genesis 12:4
So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.

Genesis 13:10
And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

Genesis 14:12
They also carried off Abram's nephew Lot and his possessions, since Lot was living in Sodom.

Genesis 19:1
Now the two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them, bowed facedown,

Genesis 19:29
So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.

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

Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.

A.

Genesis 11:31
And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.

Genesis 12:4
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 13:1-11
And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south…

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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.














THE T?LD?TH TERAH.

(27) Now these are the generations.--This toldoth, which extends to Genesis 25:11, is one of the most interesting in the Book of Genesis, as it gives us the history of the patriarch Abraham, in whom God was pleased to lay the foundation of the interme diate dispensation and of the Jewish Church, by whose institutions and psalmists and prophets the light of true religion was to be maintained, and the way prepared for the coming of Christ. But though Abraham is the central figure, yet the narrative is called the Toldoth Terah, just as the history of Joseph is called the Toldoth Jacob (Genesis 37:2). The explanation of this is, not that we have in it the history of Lot, and of Moab and Ammon, which are mere subsidiary matters; but that it connects Abraham with the past, and shows that, through Terah and the toldoth which ended in him, he was the representative of Shem.

Terah begat Abram.--Commentators, in their endeavour to make St. Stephen's assertion in Acts 7:4 agree with the numbers of the Hebrew text, have supposed that Abram was not the eldest son, and that the first place was given him because of his spiritual preeminence. But this is contrary to the rules of the Hebrew language, and the failure of the attempt to deprive Shem of his birthright by a mistranslation of Genesis 10:21 confirms Abram's claim to the same prerogative.

Verse 27. - Now (literally, and, intimating the close connection of the present with the preceding section) these are the generations - the commencement of a new subdivision of the history (Keil), and neither the winding-up of the foregoing genealogy ('Speaker's Commentary') nor the heading only of the brief paragraph in vers. 27-32 (Lange; vide Genesis 2:4) - of Terah. Not of Abram; partly because mainly occupied with the career not of Abram's son, in which case "the generations of Abram" would have been appropriate, but of Abram himself, Terah's son; and partly owing to the subsidiary design to indicate Nahor's connection, through Rebekah, with the promised seed (cf. Quarry, p. 415). Terah begat Abram, "Father of Elevation," who is mentioned first not because he happened to be Terah's eldest son (Keil), which he was not (vide Genesis 11:26), or because Moses was indifferent to the order in which the sons of Terah were introduced (Calvin), but because of his spiritual preeminence as the head of the theocratic line (Wordsworth). Nahor, "Panting," not to be confounded with his grandfather of the same name (ver. 25). Haran, "Tarrying," the eldest son of Terah (ver. 26), and, along with Abram and Nahor, reintroduced into the narrative on account of his relationship to Lot and Milcah. That Terah had other sons (Calvin) does not appear probable, And Haran begat Lot. לוט; of uncertain etymology, but may be = לוּט, a concealed, i.e. obscure, low one, or perhaps a dark-colored one (Furst).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
This
וְאֵ֙לֶּה֙ (wə·’êl·leh)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - common plural
Strong's 428: These, those

is the account
תּוֹלְדֹ֣ת (tō·wl·ḏōṯ)
Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 8435: Descent, family, history

of Terah.
תֶּ֔רַח (te·raḥ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 8646: Terah -- Abraham's father, also a place in the desert

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

became the father of
הוֹלִ֣יד (hō·w·lîḏ)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - 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.
הָרָ֑ן (hā·rān)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 2039: Haran -- 'mountaineer', a brother of Abram, also an Israelite

And Haran
וְהָרָ֖ן (wə·hā·rān)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 2039: Haran -- 'mountaineer', a brother of Abram, also an Israelite

became the father of
הוֹלִ֥יד (hō·w·lîḏ)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

Lot.
לֽוֹט׃ (lō·wṭ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3876: Lot -- Abraham's nephew


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