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Genesis 11:26

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And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
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  1. Joshua 24:2Rank 1 from verse 26
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    2And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.

  2. 1 Chronicles 1:26–27Rank 2 from verse 26
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    26Serug, Nahor, Terah,

    27Abram; the same is Abraham.

  3. Genesis 12:4–5Rank 3 from verse 26
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    4So 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.

    5And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

  4. Genesis 22:20–24Rank 4 from verse 26
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    20¶ And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor;

    21Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,

    22And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.

    23And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.

    24And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.

  5. Genesis 29:4–5Rank 5 from verse 26
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    4And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they said, Of Haran are we.

    5And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him.

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Genesis 11:26

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lived

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of live. Sense 1: To have or continue in life; to remain alive, be restored to life, or not die. Sense 2: To dwell, abide, or continue in a place, state, relation, or manner of life. Sense 3: To subsist or be sustained by or upon what is named.

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begat

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1. Fathered or brought forth as offspring; in a genealogy, identified a male progenitor in the stated line. 2. Brought forth, formed, or gave life in a spiritual or figurative relation.

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25And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.

26And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

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

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