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another generational line? This is the bloodline of Noah’s middle son, and it tells the transition from Shem to Abraham - “Abram” before God renamed him. You can reference this scripture and make sure I am speaking the truth - It can be found in Genesis 11:10-32. Genesis 8:13 says the flood stopped when Noah was 601, and two years after the flood, his grandson Arphaxad was born. Arphaxad was born to Shem, Noah's middle son, when Shem was 100 years old. After Shem had Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 more years, and had many more sons and daughters. That means Shem lived to be 600 years old - the same age Noah was when he entered the boat. Arphaxad lived 35 years, when he begot Salah. After he had Salah, Arphaxad lived 403 years, and had more sons and daughters. Arphaxad lived to be 438. Salah was 30 years old when Eber was born, and Salah lived to be 433 years old. He also had sons and daughters. Genesis 11 says that Eber lived 34 years, and had Peleg. After Eber had Peleg, Eber lived 430 more years, and had many sons and daughters. Eber was 464 years old when he died. Genesis 10:25 says, “Eber had 2 sons. The 1st son was called Peleg, and his young brother was called Joktan. That name Peleg means split up. He got that name because all the people split up into different tribes after he was born.” So I wonder - were Peleg and Joktan twins? Why would one scripture speak to both sons, but the generational timeline only include one? Also, scripture says the people were split into tribes after Peleg was born. This was the time when Peleg’s distant cousin, Nimrod, ruled over Babylon, and attempted to build a tower to reach into the heavens. This is the time when God said, “These people can all talk to each other in the same language, so they can do anything they want. If they keep on going this way, nothing will stop them from doing anything. Come on, let Us go down to these people, and we will make them talk in different languages. Then they will not understand each other, and they will be all mixed up. They will not work things out with each other, so they will not keep on building this city.” Genesis 11:5-7 “They all left that city and went to live in lots of different places, all over the world. That’s how God got people to be in different tribes all over the world. And they called that city Babel (which today is Babylon) That means mixed up. They gave it that name because God mixed up their languages at that time.” Genesis 11:9 Peleg lived 30 years, and had Reu. After he had Reu, Peleg lived 209 years, and had many sons and daughters. That means Peleg was 239 when he died. Notice - Noah lived over 900 years then Shem lived to be 600. Now Peleg lived to be less than 300. In Genesis 6:3, when human daughters were taken by the sons of God, God said, “My Spirit will not put up with humans for such a long time, for they are only mortal flesh. In the future, their normal lifespan will be no more than 120 years.” God’s Word never returns void, so we can anticipate that the human lifeline will continue to deteriorate until it reaches 120. Reu lived 32 years, and had Serug. After he had Serug, Reu lived 207 years, and had many sons and daughters. Serug lived 30 years, and had Nahor. After he had Nahor, Serug lived 200 years, and had many sons and daughters. Nahor lived 29 years, and had Terah. After he had Terah, Nahor lived 119 years, and had many sons and daughters. Nine generations passed - for God to follow up on His promise that humans would not live past 120 years. Now Terah lived 70 years, and had Abram, Nahor, and Haran.” “This is the genealogy of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begot Lot. And Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans. Then 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, the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah.” Genesis 11:27-31 This means that Nahor’s wife was his niece, because she was the daughter of Haran. “But Sarai was barren; she had no child. And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there. So the days of Terah were 205 years, and Terah died in Haran.” Genesis 11:27-32 I wonder why God granted Terah more years to live when He already said humans would not live past 120 years? I guess I should not even ask - because God is sovereign, and He can certainly do whatever He wants. But, this passage makes my heart sad. It sounds like Terah endured much grief when he lost his son, Haran. I wonder if Haran was his firstborn? I thought I had once read that Abram heard God’s voice tell him to leave Ur - to go to the land that God would show him. But in this passage, it appears Terah was leading, not Abram. It says Haran died in the land he was born, and Terah cared for Lot, Haran’s son. It says Abram’s wife, Sarai, was barren when Terah took all of them out of Ur, to go to land of Canaan. But on the way to Canaan, they came to a land named Haran and dwelt there. I’m guessing that Terah came to a land and named it after the son he once had.
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