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

New Living Translation
When Eber was 34 years old, he became the father of Peleg.

English Standard Version
When Eber had lived 34 years, he fathered Peleg.

Berean Standard Bible
When Eber was 34 years old, he became the father of Peleg.

King James Bible
And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:

New King James Version
Eber lived thirty-four years, and begot Peleg.

New American Standard Bible
Eber lived thirty-four years, and fathered Peleg;

NASB 1995
Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg;

NASB 1977
And Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg;

Legacy Standard Bible
And Eber lived 34 years and became the father of Peleg;

Amplified Bible
When Eber had lived thirty-four years, he became the father of Peleg.

Christian Standard Bible
Eber lived 34 years and fathered Peleg.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Eber lived 34 years and fathered Peleg.

American Standard Version
And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And Abar lived thirty and four years, and he begot Palag:

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Heber lived an hundred and thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg.

Contemporary English Version
When Eber was 34, he had a son named Peleg.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Heber lived thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg.

English Revised Version
And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Eber was 34 years old when he became the father of Peleg.

Good News Translation
When Eber was 34 years old, he had a son, Peleg;

International Standard Version
When Eber had lived 34 years, he fathered Peleg.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begot Peleg.

Literal Standard Version
And Eber lives thirty-four years [[or one hundred and thirty-four years]], and begets Peleg.

Majority Standard Bible
When Eber was 34 years old, he became the father of Peleg.

New American Bible
When Eber was thirty-four years old, he begot Peleg.

NET Bible
When Eber had lived 34 years, he became the father of Peleg.

New Revised Standard Version
When Eber had lived thirty-four years, he became the father of Peleg;

New Heart English Bible
Eber lived one hundred and thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:

World English Bible
Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.

Young's Literal Translation
And Eber liveth four and thirty years, and begetteth Peleg.

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Context
Genealogy from Shem to Abram
15And after he had become the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters. 16When Eber was 34 years old, he became the father of Peleg. 17And after he had become the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.…

Cross References
Genesis 11:15
And after he had become the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

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


Treasury of Scripture

And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:

A.

Genesis 10:21,25
Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born…

Numbers 24:24
And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.

1 Chronicles 1:19
And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; because in his days the earth was divided: and his brother's name was Joktan.

Peleg.

Luke 3:35
Which was the son of Saruch, which was the son of Ragau, which was the son of Phalec, which was the son of Heber, which was the son of Sala,

Phalec.

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Genesis 11
1. One language in the world.
2. The building of Babel.
5. It is interrupted by the confusion of tongues, and the builders dispersed.
10. The generations of Shem.
27. The generations of Terah, the father of Abram.
31. Terah, with Abram and Lot, move from Ur to Haran.














Verses 16, 17. - And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg. Division; from palag, to divide. For the reason of this cognomen vide Genesis 10:25. And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years (thus reaching the age of 464, the longest-lived of the postdiluvian fathers), and begat sons and daughters.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
When Eber
עֵ֕בֶר (‘ê·ḇer)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 5677: Eber -- 'region beyond', a descendant of Shem, also the name of several Israelites

was
וַֽיְחִי־ (way·ḥî-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2421: To live, to revive

34
אַרְבַּ֥ע (’ar·ba‘)
Number - feminine singular
Strong's 702: Four

years old,
שָׁנָ֑ה (šā·nāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8141: A year

he became the father of
וַיּ֖וֹלֶד (way·yō·w·leḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

Peleg.
פָּֽלֶג׃ (pā·leḡ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 6389: Peleg -- a son of Eber


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