Genesis 11:17

17 And Heber lived after he had begotten Phaleg two hundred and seventy years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.

Genesis 11:17 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 11:17

And Eber lived, after he begat Peleg, four hundred and thirty]
years
All the years of his life were four hundred and sixty four:

and he begat sons and daughters;
one of which is elsewhere mentioned, whose name is Joktan, ( Genesis 10:25 ) according to the above Jewish writer ^F5, he died in the seventy ninth year of Jacob.

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 R. Gedaliah, Shalshalet, fol. 1. 2.

Genesis 11:17 In-Context

15 And Sala lived after he had begotten Heber, three hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.

16 And Heber lived an hundred and thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg.

17 And Heber lived after he had begotten Phaleg two hundred and seventy years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.

18 And Phaleg lived and hundred and thirty years, and begot Ragau.

19 And Phaleg lived after he had begotten Ragau, two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.

Footnotes

• [a] Alex 370 years.