Genesis 11:13

“And Arphaxad lived, after he begat Salah, four hundred and three years, etc.] In all four hundred and thirty eight; the Vulgate Latin wrongly reads, three hundred and three: and begat sons and daughters; not mentioned by name: he died, as the above Arabic writer f835 says, in the month Nisan, A. M. 2696; and a Jewish writer f836 says he died in the forty eighth year of Isaac, and who also says f837 , that in his days they began to build the city of Babel.”

“- Section IX - The Line to Abram - XXXV. The Line of Abram 18. רעוּ re‛û, Re‘u, “friend;” verb: “feed, delight in, enjoy.” 20. שׂרוּג śerûg, Serug, “vine-shoot.” 22. נחור nāchôr, Nachor, “snorting.” 24. תרה terach, Terach, “delay?” Aramaic. 26. אברם 'abrām, Abram, “high father.” הרן hārān Haran, “mountaineer.” The usual phrase, “These are the generations,” marks the beginning of the fifth document. Accordingly, we now enter upon a new phase of human development. The nations have gradually departed from the living God. They have not, however, stopped at this negative stage of ungodliness. They have fallen into polytheism and idolatry. And the knowledge of the one true God, the Maker,…”