5. I will now treat of the Hebrews. The son of Phaleg, whose
father Was Heber, was Ragau; whose son was Serug, to whom was
born Nahor; his son was Terah, who was the father of Abraham, who
accordingly was the tenth from Noah, and was born in the two
hundred and ninety-second year after the deluge; for Terah begat
Abram in his seventieth year. Nahor begat Haran when he was one
hundred and twenty years old; Nahor was born to Serug in his
hundred and thirty-second year; Ragau had Serug at one hundred
and thirty; at the same age also Phaleg had Ragau; Heber begat
Phaleg in his hundred and thirty-fourth year; he himself being
begotten by Sala when he was a hundred and thirty years old, whom
Arphaxad had for his son at the hundred and thirty-fifth year of
his age. Arphaxad was the son of Shem, and born twelve years
after the deluge. Now Abram had two brethren, Nahor and Haran: of
these Haran left a son, Lot; as also Sarai and Milcha his
daughters; and died among the Chaldeans, in a city of the
Chaldeans, called Ur; and his monument is shown to this day.
These married their nieces. Nabor married Milcha, and Abram
married Sarai. Now Terah hating Chaldea, on account of his
mourning for Ilaran, they all removed to Haran of Mesopotamia,
where Terah died, and was buried, when he had lived to be two
hundred and five years old; for the life of man was already, by
degrees, diminished, and became shorter than before, till the
birth of Moses; after whom the term of human life was one hundred
and twenty years, God determining it to the length that Moses
happened to live. Now Nahor had eight sons by Milcha; Uz and Buz,
Kemuel, Chesed, Azau, Pheldas, Jadelph, and Bethuel. These were
all the genuine sons of Nahor; for Teba, and Gaam, and Tachas,
and Maaca, were born of Reuma his concubine: but Bethuel had a