Genesis 11:29
Good News Translation
Abram married Sarai, and Nahor married Milcah, the daughter of Haran, who was also the father of Iscah.

New Revised Standard Version
Abram and Nahor took wives; the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah. She was the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah.

New American Bible
Abram and Nahor took wives; the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Abram and Nachor married wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai: and the name of Nachor's wife, Melcha, the daughter of Aran, father of Melcha and father of Jescha.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Abram and Nachor married wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai: and the name of Nachor's wife, Melcha, the daughter of Aran, father of Melcha and father of Jescha.

Sarai.

Genesis 17:15 God said also to Abraham: Sarai thy wife thou shalt not call Sarai, but Sara.

Genesis 20:12 Howbeit, otherwise also she is truly my sister, the daughter of my father, and not the daughter of my mother, and I took her to wife.

Milcah.

Genesis 22:20 After these things, it was told Abraham, that Melcha also had borne children to Nachor his brother.

Genesis 24:15 He had not yet ended these words within himself, and behold Rebecca came out, the daughter of Bathuel, son of Melcha, wife to Nachor the brother of Abraham, having a pitcher on her shoulder:

Iscah.

Genesis 11:31 And Thare took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Aran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, the wife of Abram his son, and brought them out of Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Chanaan: and they came as far as Haran, and dwelt there.

,) as being Abram's wife; yet Abram afterwards said, she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother. (ch.

Genesis 20:12 Howbeit, otherwise also she is truly my sister, the daughter of my father, and not the daughter of my mother, and I took her to wife.

.) Probably Haran was the eldest son of Terah, and Abram his youngest by another wife; and thus Sarai was the daughter, or grand-daughter of Terah, Abram's father, but not of his mother.

Context
Terah's Descendants
28And Aran died before Thare his father, in the land of his nativity in Ur of the Chaldees. 29And Abram and Nachor married wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai: and the name of Nachor's wife, Melcha, the daughter of Aran, father of Melcha and father of Jescha.30And Sarai was barren, and had no children.…
Cross References
Genesis 17:15
God said also to Abraham: Sarai thy wife thou shalt not call Sarai, but Sara.

Genesis 20:12
Howbeit, otherwise also she is truly my sister, the daughter of my father, and not the daughter of my mother, and I took her to wife.

Genesis 22:20
After these things, it was told Abraham, that Melcha also had borne children to Nachor his brother.

Genesis 22:23
And Bathuel, of whom was born Rebecca: these eight did Melcha bear to Nachor, Abraham's brother.

Genesis 24:10
And he took ten camels of his master's herd, and departed, carrying something of all his goods with him, and he set forward and went on to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nachor.

Genesis 24:15
He had not yet ended these words within himself, and behold Rebecca came out, the daughter of Bathuel, son of Melcha, wife to Nachor the brother of Abraham, having a pitcher on her shoulder:

Genesis 11:28
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