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Gen 11:16

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Gen 11:16 · Douay-Rheims
“And Heber lived thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg.”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1771
A.D.
John Gill Reformed
1697–1771
“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 Arabic writers (g) say he begat Melchizedek the priest, and that he died in the month Elul, A. M. 3126; and a Jewish writer (h) says he died in the forty eighth year of Abraham. (g) Elmacinus apud Hottinger. p. 269. (h) R. Gedaliah, ut supra. (Shalshalet, fol. 1. 2.)”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

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