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Genesis 11:16

Genesis 11:16
And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And Peleg lived, after he begat Reu, two hundred and nine years,.... In all two hundred and thirty nine, little more than half the age of his father:

and begat sons and daughters; but not named the…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Genesis 11:10-26

We have here a genealogy, not an endless genealogy, for here it ends in Abram, the friend of God, and leads further to Christ, the promised seed, who was the son of Abram, and from Abram the genealogy…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Peleg See note on Gen 10:25.

The geographer Kiepert compares a place Φαλιγά at the junction of the tributary Ḥabor with the river Euphrates.

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