Genesis 11:29

World English Bible (2000)

Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah.

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  • Gen 17:15 : 15 God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.
  • Gen 22:20 : 20 It happened after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, "Behold, Milcah, she also has borne children to your brother Nahor:
  • Gen 24:15 : 15 It happened, before he had finished 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 on her shoulder.
  • Gen 20:12 : 12 Besides, 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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    30Sarai was barren. She had no child.

    31Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.

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

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

    23Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

  • Gen 28:9
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    9Esau went to 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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    1Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

    2Sarai said to Abram, "See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

    3Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had lived 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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    24Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.

    25Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of sons and daughters.

    26Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

    27Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.

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

  • Gen 25:1
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    1Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.

  • Gen 12:5
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    5Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls whom they had gotten in Haran, and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. Into the land of Canaan they came.

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

  • Gen 28:2
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    2Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

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

  • Gen 24:15
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    15It happened, before he had finished 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 on her shoulder.

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    2Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon, the Hittite; and Oholibamah 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, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.

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

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

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

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

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    28The sons of Abraham: Isaac, and Ishmael.