Genesis 11:23

And Serug lived, after he begat Nahor, two hundred years ,.... The years of his life were two hundred and thirty:

and he begat sons and daughters ; nowhere else mentioned: he died, according to the above Jewish writer F15 R. Gedaliah, Shalshalet. fol. 2. 1. , in the one hundredth year of Abraham, and in his days, according to the eastern writers F16 Apud Hyde, ut supra. (Hist. Relig. Pers. c. 2. 57.) , idolatry began, and the kingdom of Damascus was set up F17 Juchasin, fol. 135. 2. ; and Samirus, king of the Chaldeans, invented weights and measures, weaving silk, and the art of dying F19 Abulpharag. Hist. Dynast. p. 18. .