Genesis 11:29

KJV1611 – Modern English

And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves: 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 to Abraham, As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.
  • Gen 22:20 : 20 And it happened after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor;
  • Gen 24:15 : 15 And it happened, before he had finished speaking, that behold, Rebekah came out with her pitcher on her shoulder. She was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother.
  • Gen 20:12 : 12 And yet indeed she is my sister; she is 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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    30But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

    31And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and lived there.

  • Gen 22:20
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    20And it happened after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor;

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

    23And Bethuel begot Rebekah: these eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

  • Gen 28:9
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    9Then Esau went to Ishmael, and took Mahlath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife, in addition to the wives he already had.

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

    2And Sarai said to Abram, Behold now, the LORD has restrained me from bearing children. I pray you, go in to my maid; it may be that I will obtain children by her. And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

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

  • Gen 11:24-28
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    73%

    24And Nahor lived twenty-nine years and begot Terah.

    25And Nahor lived after he begot Terah one hundred and nineteen years and begot sons and daughters.

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

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

    28And Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

  • Gen 25:1
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    1Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.

  • Gen 12:5
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    5And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran; and they set out to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to the land of Canaan.

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

  • Gen 28:2
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    2Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father; and take yourself a wife from there of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.

  • Gen 20:12
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    12And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

  • Gen 24:15
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    15And it happened, before he had finished speaking, that behold, Rebekah came out with her pitcher on her shoulder. She was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother.

  • Gen 36:2
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    2Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;

  • Gen 25:20
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    20Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian from Padan Aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.

  • Gen 24:24
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    24So she said to him, "I am the daughter of Bethuel, Milcah's son, whom she bore to Nahor."

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

  • Gen 17:15
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    15And God said to Abraham, As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.

  • Gen 24:4
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    4But you shall go to my country and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac."

  • 1 Chr 1:28
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    28The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael.