OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 11:20

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Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.

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Verse 20. Sarug: in whose days S. Epiphanius places the origin of idolatry; but Eusebius (Præp. i. v. & 9.) thinks it began in Egypt, among the posterity of Cham. Calmet.

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