Peleg

Peleg (, in pausa , "division"; ) is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of the two sons of Eber, an ancestor of the Ishmaelites and the Israelites, according to the Generations of Noah in and .

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Person.name: Peleg
Person.image: Paleg.jpg
Person.image_size: 225px
Person.caption: Peleg imagined in the 1553 Promptuarium Iconum Insigniorum
Person.birth_date: 2355 BCE (the time when the earth was divided)
Person.birth_place: Ur, Sumer(present-day southern Iraq)
Person.death_date: 2116 BCE (aged 239)
Person.parents: Eber
Person.children: Reu and others

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In Scriptures
"The earth was divided"
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Peleg (, in pausa , "division"; ) is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of the two sons of Eber, an ancestor of the Ishmaelites and the Israelites, according to the Generations of Noah in and .

== In Scriptures == Peleg's son was Reu, born when Peleg was thirty, and he had other sons and daughters. According to the Hebrew Bible, Peleg lived to the age of 239 years, () (up to when Terah was 118).