For this reason he called the name of Sêrôḫ, Serug, for every one turned to do all manner of sin and transgression.

And he grew up, and dwelt in Ur of the Chaldees, near to the father of his wife's mother, and he worshipped idols,

and he took to himself a wife in the thirty-sixth jubilee, in the fifth week, in the first year thereof, and her name was Mêlkâ, the daughter of Kâbêr, the daughter of his father's brother.

And she bare him Nahor, in the first year of this week, and he grew and dwelt in Ur of the Chaldees,