Genesis 11:29

Coverdale Bible (1535)

Then Abram and Nahor toke them wyues. Abrams wife was called Sarai, & Nahors wyfe Milca the doughter of Haran, which was father of Milca and Iisca.

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  • Gen 17:15 : 15 And God sayde vnto Abraham: Sarai thy wyfe shall nomore be called Sarai, but Sara shal be hir name:
  • Gen 22:20 : 20 After these actes it fortuned, that it was tolde Abraham: Beholde, Milca hath borne children also vnto thy brother Nahor:
  • Gen 24:15 : 15 And or euer he had left of speakynge, beholde, Rebecca the doughter of Bethuel (which was the sonne of Milca, that was the wyfe of Nahor Abrahams brother) came forth, and bare a pytcher vpon hir shulder,
  • Gen 20:12 : 12 And of a trueth she is my sister, for she is my fathers doughter, but not my mothers doughter, and is become my wife.

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  • Gen 11:30-31
    2 verses
    78%

    30 But Sarai was baren, and had no childe.

    31 Then toke Terah Abra his sonne, & Lot his sonne Harans sonne, & Sarai his doughter in lawe, his sonne Abrams wife, & caried them wt him from Vr in Chaldea, to go in to the lande of Canaan. And they came to Haran, & dwelt there.

  • 20 After these actes it fortuned, that it was tolde Abraham: Beholde, Milca hath borne children also vnto thy brother Nahor:

  • Gen 22:22-23
    2 verses
    76%

    22 and Cesed, and Haso, and Pildas, and Iedlaph and Bethuel.

    23 And Bethuel begat Rebecca. These eight dyd Milca beare vnto Nahor Abrahams brother.

  • 9 he wente his waye vnto Ismael, and besyde the wyues that he had afore, he toke Mahaloth the doughter of Ismael (Abrahas sonne) the sister of Nebaioth, to wife.

  • Gen 16:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    1 Sarai Abrams wife bare him no children: but she had an handmayde an Egipcian, whose name was Agar,

    2 and sayde vnto Abram: Beholde, the LORDE hath closed me, that I can not beare. Go in (I praye the) vnto my mayde: peraduenture I shalbe multiplied by her, more then by myself. And Abram herkened vnto the voyce of Sarai. Than Sarai

    3 Abrams wife toke Agar hir mayde ye Egipcian (after they had dwelt ten yeare in the londe of Canaan) and gaue her vnto hir husbande Abra, to be his wife.

  • Gen 11:24-28
    5 verses
    73%

    24 Nahor was nyene and twentye yeare olde, and begat Terah,

    25 and lyued herafter an hundreth and nyentene yeare, and begat sonnes and doughters.

    26 Terah was seuentie yeare olde, and begat Abram, Nahor and Haran.

    27 These are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran begat Lot,

    28 but Hara dyed before Terah his father in ye londe where he was borne, at Vr in Chaldea.

  • 1 Abraham toke another wife called Ketura,

  • 5 So Abram toke Sarai his wife, and Lot his brothers sonne, wt all their goodes which they had gotten, and soules which they begat in Hara, and departed to go in to ye londe of Canaan.

  • 2 and sayde of Sara his wife: She is my sister. Then Abimelech the kinge of Gerar sent for her, and caused her be fett awaye.

  • 2 but get the vp, and go in to Mesopotamia vnto the house of Bethuel thy mothers father, and take ye there a wife of ye doughters of Laban yi mothers brother.

  • 12 And of a trueth she is my sister, for she is my fathers doughter, but not my mothers doughter, and is become my wife.

  • 15 And or euer he had left of speakynge, beholde, Rebecca the doughter of Bethuel (which was the sonne of Milca, that was the wyfe of Nahor Abrahams brother) came forth, and bare a pytcher vpon hir shulder,

  • 2 Esau toke wyues of the doughters of Canaan. Ada the doughter of Elo the Hethite: & Ahalibama the doughter of Ana, the childes childe of Zibeon the Heuyte:

  • 20 Isaac was fourtye yeare olde, whan he toke to wyfe Rebecca the doughter of Bethuel ye Syrian of Mesopotamia, & Sister of Laban the Syrian.

  • 24 She sayde vnto him: I am the doughter of Bethuel, the sonne of Mylca, whom she bare vnto Nahor.

  • 26 Serug, Nahor, Terah,

  • 15 And God sayde vnto Abraham: Sarai thy wyfe shall nomore be called Sarai, but Sara shal be hir name:

  • 4 but that thou go in to my countre? and to myne owne kynred, and brynge my sonne Isaac a wife.

  • 28 The children of Abraham are these: Isaac and Ismael.