And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
And Peleg liveth thirty years, and begetteth Reu.
And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu.
Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.
The walk2
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Luke 3:35the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah,
leads to
Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber.
When Arphaxad was 35 years old, he became the father of Shelah.
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
The verses this one reaches1
the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah,
Voices2
Indeed, Phaleg lived thirty years and begot Reu. The seventy interpreters have it one hundred and thirty.
Bede· Commentary on Genesis (Hexaemeron), 735patristic
And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
