Genesis 11:32 (WEB)
The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.
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Tertullian
The Law of Change, or Mutation, Universal. Draw we now our material from some other source, lest Punichood either blush or else grieve in the midst of Romans. To change her habit is, at all events, the stated…
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Augustine of Hippo
“On Terah’s death in Mesopotamia, where he is said to have lived 205 years, the promises of God made to Abraham now begin to be pointed out; for thus it is written: “And the days of Terah in Haran were two hundred and five years, and he died in Haran.”” — editor's note: Gen. xi. 32.
Read the whole comment“For as it is written of Terah the father of Abraham, “And the days of Terah in Haran were 205 years,” not because they were all spent there, but because they were completed there, so it is said here also, “And they shall reduce them to servitude, and shall…” — editor's note: Gen. xi. 32.
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