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Jewish tradition tells us that Namaah married Noakh and is the mother of Shem, Ham and Japheth. 4, there is only one daughter mentioned, Namaah. Women are rarely named but when they are named they are doubly important.įor example, in Cain’s family line back in Gen. These names are there to mark an important family line, a transmission of generations.

Then Abraham, Sarai and Lot left Terah and the rest of the family behind in Haran and went to the Promised Land. The rest of them moved on to the town of Haran. Haran died while the family were still living in Ur. They are Laban and Rebecca’s grandparents. Haran had a son named Lot and two daughters named Milcah and Iscah. Terah had three sons: Abram, Nahor II and Haran and a daughter Sarai. The days of Terah were two hundred and five years and Terah died in Haran.” (Genesis 11:24–32 NASB) 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 out together from Ur of the Chaldeans in order to enter the land of Canaan and they went as far as Haran, and settled there.

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. Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran and Haran became the father of Lot. Now these are the records of the generations of Terah. Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. “Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah and Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and he had other sons and daughters. We will need to discuss the tail end of Genesis 11 briefly, particularly the genealogy of Terah, Abraham’s father. As we study the Torah reading לֶךְ-לְךָ‎ Lech Lecha (“get going!” Genesis 12–17), we should remember that the Bible He divinely inspired should not be interpreted through the lens of American history. “Therefore he (Pharaoh) treated Abram well for her sake and gave him sheep and oxen and donkeys and male and female servants and female donkeys and camels.” (Genesis 12:16 NASB) Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:33:58 - 27.1MB)