Genesis 11:29

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Gen 17:15 : 15 And God said, As for Sarai, your wife, from now her name will be not Sarai, but Sarah.
  • Gen 22:20 : 20 After these things, Abraham had news that Milcah, the wife of his brother Nahor, had given birth to children;
  • Gen 24:15 : 15 And even before his words were ended, Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, who was the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, came out with her water-vessel on her arm.
  • Gen 20:12 : 12 And, in fact, she is 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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    30And Sarai had no child.

    31And Terah took Abram, his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram and they went out from Ur of the Chaldees, to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and were there for some time.

  • 20After these things, Abraham had news that Milcah, the wife of his brother Nahor, had given birth to children;

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

    23Bethuel was the father of Rebekah: these eight were the children of Milcah and Nahor, Abraham's brother.

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

  • Gen 16:1-3
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    1Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar.

    2And Sarai said to Abram, See, the Lord has not let me have children; go in to my servant, for I may get a family through her. And Abram did as Sarai said.

    3So after Abram had been living for ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai took Hagar, her Egyptian servant, and gave her to Abram for his wife.

  • Gen 11:24-28
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    24And Nahor was twenty-nine years old when he became the father of Terah:

    25And after the birth of Terah, Nahor went on living for a hundred and nineteen years, and had sons and daughters:

    26And Terah was seventy years old when he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

    27These are the generations of Terah: Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.

    28And death came to Haran when he was with his father Terah in the land of his birth, Ur of the Chaldees.

  • 1And Abraham took another wife named Keturah.

  • 5And Abram took Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother's son, and all their goods and the servants which they had got in Haran, and they went out to go to the land of Canaan.

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

  • 2But go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and there get yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

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

  • 15And even before his words were ended, Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, who was the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, came out with her water-vessel on her arm.

  • 2Esau's wives were women of Canaan: Adah, the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite,

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

  • 24And she said to him, I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, Nahor's wife.

  • 26Serug, Nahor, Terah,

  • 15And God said, As for Sarai, your wife, from now her name will be not Sarai, but Sarah.

  • 4But that you will go into my country and to my relations and get a wife there for my son Isaac.

  • 28The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael.