Genesis 10:24

10:24 Arphaxad was the father of¹ Shelah,² and Shelah was the father of Eber.³

Genesis 11:14

11:14 When Shelah had lived 30 years, he became the father of Eber.

Genesis 11:16

11:16 When Eber had lived 34 years, he became the father of Peleg.

Genesis 10:21

10:21 And sons were also born⁴ to Shem (the older brother of Japheth),⁵ the father of all the sons of Eber.

Genesis 10:25

10:25 Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg because in his days the earth was divided,⁶ and his brother’s name was Joktan.

Genesis 11:15

11:15 And after he became the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other⁷ sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:17

11:17 And after he became the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.

¹tn Heb “fathered.”

²tc The MT reads “Arphaxad fathered Shelah”; the LXX reads “Arphaxad fathered Cainan, and Cainan fathered Sala [= Shelah].” The LXX reading also appears to lie behind Luke 3:35-36.

³sn Genesis 11 traces the line of Shem through Eber (עֵבֶר, ’ever ) to Abraham the “Hebrew” (עִבְרִי, ’ivri).

⁴tn Heb “And to Shem was born.”

⁵tn Or “whose older brother was Japheth.” Some translations render Japheth as the older brother, understanding the adjective הַגָּדוֹל (haggadol, “older”) as modifying Japheth. However, in Hebrew when a masculine singular definite attributive adjective follows the sequence masculine singular construct noun + proper name, the adjective invariably modifies the noun in construct, not the proper name. Such is the case here. See Deut 11:7; Judg 1:13; 2:7; 3:9; 9:5; 2 Kgs 15:35; 2 Chr 27:3; Neh 3:30; Jer 13:9; 36:10; Ezek 10:19; 11:1.

⁷tn The expression “the earth was divided” may refer to dividing the land with canals, but more likely it anticipates the division of languages at Babel (Gen 11). The verb פָּלָג (palag, “separate, divide”) is used in Ps 55:9 for a division of languages.

¹⁰tn Here and in vv. 16, 19, 21, 23, 25 the word “other” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied for stylistic reasons.