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From Shem to Abram
Shem's line of descendants included Arpachshad, born two years after the flood when Shem was 100 years old; after that he lived another 500 years, and had many sons and daughters.
When Arpachshad was thirty-five years old, his son Shelah was born, and after that he lived another 403 years, and had many sons and daughters.
Shelah was thirty years old when his son Eber was born, living 403 years after that, and had many sons and daughters.
Eber was thirty-four years old when his son Peleg was born. He lived another 430 years afterwards, and had many sons and daugthers.
Peleg was thirty years old when his son Reu was born. He lived another 209 years afterwards, and had many sons and daughters.
Reu was thirty-two years old when Serug was born. He lived 207 years after that, with many sons and daughters.
Serug was thirty years old when his son Nahor was born. He lived 200 years afterwards, with many sons and daughters.
Nahor was twenty-nine years old at the birth of his son Terah. He lived 119 years afterwards, with many sons and daughters.
By the time Terah was seventy years old, he had three sons, Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran had a son named Lot. But Haran died young, in the land where he was born (in Ur of the Chaldeans), and was survived by his father.
Meanwhile, Abram married his half sister Sarai, while his brother Nahor married their orphaned niece Milcah, who was the daughter of their brother Haran; and she had a brother named Iscah. But Sarai was barren; she had no children. Then Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (his son Haran's child), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, and left Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Cannan, but they stopped instead at the city of Haran and settled there. And there Terah died at the age of 205.
TEXT SOURCE:
(Genesis 11:9-32) The Children's Living Bible, ©1970 Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton Illinois 60187
TITLE SOURCE: The New Student Bible, ©1992 Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids Michigan
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