Reu lived after he became the father of Serug two hundred seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
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Reu lived after he became the father of Serug two hundred seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
Then after he fathered Serug, Reu lived 207 years, and he fathered sons and daughters.
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Reu lived after he became the father of Serug two hundred seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
And after he had become the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.
And after he had become the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.
And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
and Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
and Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
So Reu liued, after he begate Serug, two hundreth and seuen yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
And Reu lived after he begot Sarug, two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.
And Reu liveth after his begetting Serug two hundred and seven years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
And Reu lives after his begetting Serug two hundred and seven years, and begets sons and daughters.
Reu lived 207 years after he became the father of Serug. He also became the father of other sons and daughters.
Then after he fathered Serug, Reu lived 207 years, and he fathered sons and daughters.
And Reu lived after he had begotten Serug two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.
Reu lived two hundred seven years after he became the father of Serug, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
Reu lived another 207 years after Serug was born and had other sons and daughters.
And after the birth of Serug, Reu went on living for two hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters:
And Reu lived after he begot Serug two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is רְע֗וּ Reu H7466 — appearing just 5 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
רְע֗וּ Reu H7466 occurs in 5 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 21 words from the Hebrew and 20 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 13 Hebrew tokens and 19 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
וַיְחִ֣י רְע֗וּ אַחֲרֵי֙ הוֹלִיד֣וֹ אֶת שְׂר֔וּג שֶׁ֥בַע שָׁנִ֖ים וּמָאתַ֣יִם שָׁנָ֑ה וַיּ֥וֹלֶד בָּנִ֖ים וּבָנֽוֹת
Reu lived after he became the father of Serug two hundred seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ζάω ραγαυ μετά ὁ γεννάω αὐτός ὁ σερουχ διακόσιοι ἑπτά ἔτος καί γεννάω υἱός καί θυγάτηρ καί ἀποθνήσκω
And Raau lived after he had begotten Seruch, two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וַחֲיָא רְעוּ בָּתַר דְּאוֹלִיד יָת שְׂרוּג מָאתָן וּשְׁבַע שְׁנִין וְאוֹלִיד בְּנִין וּבְנָן
And Reu lived after he had begotten Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
וַחֲיָא רְעוּ בָּתַר דְאוֹלִיד יַת שְרוּג מָאתָן וּשְׁבַע שְׁנִין וְאוֹלִיד בְּנִין וּבְנָן
And Reu lived after he had begotten Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Genesis, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 13 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Rᵉʻûw (“Reu”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Genesis 11:21 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.