Genesis 11:25

“And Nahor lived, after he begat Terah, one hundred and ninteen years, etc.] In all one hundred and forty eight years; so sensibly did the lives of the patriarchs decrease: in the days of Nahor, the Arabic writers f854 say, was a great earthquake, which had never been observed before; idolaters increasing and offering their children to demons, God raised a tempest like a deluge, which broke their images and destroyed their temples in Arabia, and covered them in heaps of sand, which remained to the days of those writers, as they affirm: in his days it is also said Spain, Portugal, and Arragon were founded f855: and begat sons and daughters; of whom no other account is given: he died, as a…”

“- 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,…”