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Serug

Serug was the son of Reu

REU

The abbreviation REU is a three letter acronym with one of several meanings, depending on context:*Commodore REU – the Commodore 1700/1750/1764 series of memory expansion cartridges for Commodore 64/128 home computers...
and the father of Nahor

Nahor

Nahor is the name of two persons in Torah who were both descended from Arpachshad:# The son of Serug and father of Terah, who was the father of Abraham....
, according to Genesis

Genesis

Genesis or Breishit is the first book of the Bible used by Judaism and Christianity, and the first of five books of the Pentateuch or Torah....
11:20-23. He is also the great-grandfather of Abraham

Abraham

Abraham is a man featured in the Book of Genesis and an important figure in several monotheistic religions. Judaism, Christianity and Islam traditions regard him as the founding Patriarchs of the Israelites, Ishmaelites and Edomite peoples....
. In the Masoretic text that modern Bibles are based on, he was 30 when Nahor was born, and lived to the age of 230. (Other early versions give different figures).

He is called Saruch in the Greek

Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
version of Luke

Gospel of Luke

The Gospel of Luke is a Synoptic Gospels, and is the third and longest of the four Biblical canonical Gospels of the New Testament. The text narrates the life of Jesus of Nazareth....
3:35.

Further details are provided in Jubilees

Jubilees

The Book of Jubilees , sometimes called the Lesser Genesis , is an ancient Jewish religious work, considered one of the Pseudepigrapha by most Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox Christians....
, where it gives the names of his mother, Ora (11:1), and wife Milcah (11:6).

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Serug was the son of Reu

REU

Nahor

Nahor is the name of two persons in Torah who were both descended from Arpachshad:# The son of Serug and father of Terah, who was the father of Abraham....
, according to Genesis

Genesis

Abraham

Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
version of Luke

Gospel of Luke

Jubilees

Noah

Noah was, according to the Bible, the tenth and last of the antediluvian Patriarchs ; and a prophet according to the Qur'an. The biblical story of Noah is contained in the book of Book of Genesis, chapters 5-9, while the Qur'an has a whole sura named after and devoted to his story with other references elsewhere....
's children began to fight wars, and the city of Ur

Ur is modern Tell el-Mukayyar, Iraq, and was a city in ancient Sumer. Once a coastal city near the mouth of the then Euphrates river on the Persian Gulf, Ur is now well inland....
was built, where Serug lived. It says this Serug was the first of the patriarchal line to abandon monotheism and turn to idol worship, teaching sorcery to his son Nahor.