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 , in the one hundredth year of Abraham, and in his days, according to the eastern writers , idolatry began, and the kingdom of Damascus was set up ; and Samirus, king of the Chaldeans, invented weights and measures, weaving silk, and the art of dying .
R. Gedaliah, Shalshalet. fol. 2. 1. Apud Hyde, ut supra. (Hist. Relig. Pers. c. 2. 57.) Juchasin, fol. 135. 2. Abulpharag. Hist. Dynast. p.