Peleg lived two hundred nine years after he became the father of Reu, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
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Peleg lived two hundred nine years after he became the father of Reu, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
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And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
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And Peleg lived after he begot Reu two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor. The…
And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor. The grandfather of Abraham, one of the same name was Abraham's brother, Gen 11:26.
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Genesis 11:23
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gen 11:23And 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 (o), in the one hundredth year of Abraham, and in his days, according to the eastern writers (p), idolatry began, and the kingdom of Damascus was set up (q); and Samirus, king of the Chaldeans, invented weights and measures, weaving silk, and the art of dying (s).
(o) R. Gedaliah, Shalshalet. fol. 2. 1. (p) Apud Hyde, ut supra. (Hist. Relig. Pers. c. 2. 57.) (q) Juchasin, fol. 135. 2. (s) Abulpharag. Hist. Dynast. p. 18.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 19. Reu] Whether this is the name of a…
19. Reu] Whether this is the name of a place or a tribe seems quite uncertain. Observe the sudden decline in the length of Peleg’s life, and in that of his descendants, as compared with his predecessors. In the approach to historic times the figures become more normal.
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