Genesis - 11:19



19 Peleg lived two hundred nine years after he became the father of Reu, and became the father of sons and daughters.

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And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Phaleg lived after he begot Reu, two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.
And Peleg lived after he had begotten Reu two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.
And Peleg liveth after his begetting Reu two hundred and nine years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
And after the birth of Reu, Peleg went on living for two hundred and nine years, and had sons and daughters:
Peleg lived two hundred and nine years after he became the father of Reu, and fathered sons and daughters.
And after he conceived Reu, Peleg lived for two hundred and nine years, and he conceived sons and daughters.
Et vixit Peleg, postquam genuit Rehu, novem annos et ducentos annos: et genuit filios et filias.

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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.)

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