Genesis 11:29

Geneva Bible (1560)

So Abram and Nahor tooke them wiues. The name of Abrams wife was Sarai, & the name of Nahors wife Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

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  • Gen 17:15 : 15 Afterward God said vnto Abraham, Sarai thy wife shalt thou not call Sarai, but Sarah shalbe her name.
  • Gen 22:20 : 20 And after these things one tolde Abraham, saying, Beholde Milcah, she hath also borne children vnto thy brother Nahor:
  • Gen 24:15 : 15 And nowe yer he had left speaking, beholde, Rebekah came out, the daughter of Bethuel, sonne of Milcah the wife of Nahor Abrahams brother, and her pitcher vpon her shoulder.
  • Gen 20:12 : 12 Yet in very deede she is my sister: for she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother, and she is my wife.

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  • Gen 11:30-31
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    30But Sarai was barren, and had no childe.

    31Then Terah tooke Abram his sonne, and Lot the sonne of Haran, his sonnes sonne, and Sarai his daughter in lawe, his sonne Abrams wife: and they departed together from Vr of the Caldees, to goe into the land of Canaan, and they came to Haran, and dwelt there.

  • Gen 22:20
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    20And after these things one tolde Abraham, saying, Beholde Milcah, she hath also borne children vnto thy brother Nahor:

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

    23And Bethuel begate Rebekah: these eight did Milcah beare to Nahor Abrahams brother.

  • Gen 28:9
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    9Then went Esau to Ishmael, & tooke vnto the wiues, which he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abrahams sonne, the sister of Nabaioth, to be his wife.

  • Gen 16:1-3
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    1Nowe Sarai Abrams wife bare him no children, and she had a maide an Egyptian, Hagar by name.

    2And Sarai said vnto Abram, Beholde now, the Lorde hath restrained me from childe bearing. I pray thee goe in vnto my maide: it may be that I shall receiue a childe by her; Abram obeyed the voyce of Sarai.

    3Then Sarai Abrams wife tooke Hagar her maide the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelled ten yeere in the land of Canaan, and gaue her to her husband Abram for his wife.

  • Gen 11:24-28
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    73%

    24And Nahor liued nine and twentie yeeres, and begate Terah.

    25So Nahor liued, after he begate Terah, an hundreth and nineteene yeeres, and begat sonnes and daughters.

    26So Terah liued seuentie yeeres, and begate Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

    27Nowe these are the generations of Terah: Terah begate Abram, Nahor, and Haran: and Haran begate Lot.

    28Then Haran died before Terah his father in the land of his natiuitie, in Vr of the Caldees.

  • Gen 25:1
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    1Nowe Abraham had taken him another wife called Keturah,

  • Gen 12:5
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    5Then Abram tooke Sarai his wife, & Lot his brothers sonne, and all their substance that they possessed, and the soules that they had gotten in Haran, & they departed, to goe to the land of Canaan: & to the land of Canaan they came.

  • Gen 20:2
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    2And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. Then Abimelech King of Gerar sent and tooke Sarah.

  • Gen 28:2
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    2Arise, get thee to Padan Aram to the house of Bethuel thy mothers father, and thence take thee a wife of the daughters of Laban thy mothers brother.

  • Gen 20:12
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    12Yet in very deede she is my sister: for she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother, and she is my wife.

  • Gen 24:15
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    15And nowe yer he had left speaking, beholde, Rebekah came out, the daughter of Bethuel, sonne of Milcah the wife of Nahor Abrahams brother, and her pitcher vpon her shoulder.

  • Gen 36:2
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    2Esau tooke his wiues of the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon an Hittite, & Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon an Hiuite,

  • Gen 25:20
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    20And Izhak was fourtie yeere olde, when he tooke Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramite of Padan Aram, and sister to Laban the Aramite.

  • Gen 24:24
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    24Then she said to him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the sonne of Milcah whom she bare vnto Nahor.

  • 1 Chr 1:26
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    26Serug, Nahor, Terah,

  • Gen 17:15
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    15Afterward God said vnto Abraham, Sarai thy wife shalt thou not call Sarai, but Sarah shalbe her name.

  • Gen 24:4
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    4But thou shalt go vnto my countrey, and to my kinred, & take a wife vnto my sone Izhak.

  • 1 Chr 1:28
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    28The sonnes of Abraham were Izhak, and Ishmael.