Genesis 11:29

American Standard Version (1901)

And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

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  • Gen 17:15 : 15 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.
  • Gen 22:20 : 20 And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she also hath borne children unto thy brother Nahor:
  • Gen 24:15 : 15 And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.
  • Gen 20:12 : 12 And moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife:

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  • Gen 11:30-31
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    30 And Sarai was barren; she had no child.

    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.

  • 20 And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she also hath borne children unto thy brother Nahor:

  • Gen 22:22-23
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    22 and Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.

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

  • 9 and Esau went unto Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.

  • Gen 16:1-3
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    1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bare him no children: and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

    2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, Jehovah hath restrained me from bearing; go in, I pray thee, unto my handmaid; it may be that I shall obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

    3 And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.

  • Gen 11:24-28
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    24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:

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

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

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

    28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

  • 1 And Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.

  • 5 And 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.

  • 2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

  • 2 Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.

  • 12 And moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife:

  • 15 And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.

  • 2 Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite,

  • 20 and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.

  • 24 And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bare unto Nahor.

  • 26 Serug, Nahor, Terah,

  • 15 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.

  • 4 but thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.

  • 28 The sons of Abraham: Isaac, and Ishmael.