5. I will now treat of the Hebrews. The son of Phaleg, whose father Was
Heber, was Ragau; whose son was Serug, to whom was born Nahor; his son
was Terah, who was the father of Abraham, who accordingly was the tenth
from Noah, and was born in the two hundred and ninety-second year after
the deluge; for Terah begat Abram in his seventieth year. Nahor begat
Haran when he was one hundred and twenty years old; Nahor was born to
Serug in his hundred and thirty-second year; Ragau had Serug at one
hundred and thirty; at the same age also Phaleg had Ragau; Heber begat
Phaleg in his hundred and thirty-fourth year; he himself being begotten
by Sala when he was a hundred and thirty years old, whom Arphaxad had
for his son at the hundred and thirty-fifth year of his age. Arphaxad
was the son of Shem, and born twelve years after the deluge. Now Abram
had two brethren, Nahor and Haran: of these Haran left a son, Lot; as
also Sarai and Milcha his daughters; and died among the Chaldeans, in a
city of the Chaldeans, called Ur; and his monument is shown to this day.
These married their nieces. Nabor married Milcha, and Abram married
Sarai. Now Terah hating Chaldea, on account of his mourning for Ilaran,
they all removed to Haran of Mesopotamia, where Terah died, and was
buried, when he had lived to be two hundred and five years old; for the
life of man was already, by degrees, diminished, and became shorter than
before, till the birth of Moses; after whom the term of human life was
one hundred and twenty years, God determining it to the length that
Moses happened to live. Now Nahor had eight sons by Milcha; Uz and Buz,
Kemuel, Chesed, Azau, Pheldas, Jadelph, and Bethuel. These were all the
genuine sons of Nahor; for Teba, and Gaam, and Tachas, and Maaca, were
born of Reuma his concubine: but Bethuel had a daughter, Rebecca, and a
son, Laban.
CHAPTER 7. How Abram Our Forefather Went Out Of The Land Of The
Chaldeans, And Lived In The Land Then Called Canaan But Now Judea.
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