Genesis 11:30
28 During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
29 And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah.
But Sarai was barren; she had no children.
31 And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.
32 Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- But Sarai was barren; she had no children.
- KJV
- But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
- WEB
- Sarai was barren. She had no child.
- ASV
- And Sarai was barren; She had no child.
- DARBY
- And Sarai was barren: she had no child.
- BLB
- And Sarai was barren; she had no child.
- ÅB
- Og Sarai var ufruktbar, hun hadde ikke noe barn.
- OTB
- Sarai kunne ikke få barn; hun hadde ingen barn.
- B1930
- Og Sarai var ufruktbar, hun hadde ikke noget barn.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Judges 13:2
Now there was a man from Zorah named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, whose wife was barren and had no children.
Read in contextGenesis 25:21
Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.
Read in context1 Samuel 1:2
He had two wives, one named Hannah and the other Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none.
Read in contextLuke 1:7
But they had no children, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both well along in years.
Read in contextLuke 1:36
Look, even Elizabeth your relative has conceived a son in her old age, and she who was called barren is in her sixth month.
Read in contextGenesis 30:1–2
When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob.
Read in contextGenesis 29:31
When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
Read in contextGenesis 18:11–12
And Abraham and Sarah were already old and well along in years; Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
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