Salah fathering Eber is one link in the line from Shem to Abraham. Joined with the generations before and after it, it helps establish the overlapping lifetimes of the patriarchs, with Shem living 150 years after the birth of Abraham and 50 years after the birth of Isaac. That overlap made possible a direct handing down of all God taught Adam through few long-lived witnesses, from Adam to Methuselah to Shem to Abraham and Isaac to Jacob, the father of the tribes of Israel.
It belongs to the post-Flood, post-Noah genealogy that follows the earliest generations whose lives approached a thousand years. In that genealogy it helps show that humanity has physically deteriorated through declining longevity after the Flood. The nine generations after the Flood average 332 years of life, compared with 912 years for the nine generations before the Flood. The downward course continued to seventy years in the time of Moses and to about thirty-five years at present.
Salah fathering Eber is one link in the line from Shem to Abraham. Joined with the generations before and after it, it helps establish the overlapping lifetimes of the patriarchs, with Shem living 150 years after the birth of Abraham and 50 years after the birth of Isaac. That overlap made possible a direct handing down of all God taught Adam through few long-lived witnesses, from Adam to Methuselah to Shem to Abraham and Isaac to Jacob, the father of the tribes of Israel.
It belongs to the post-Flood, post-Noah genealogy that follows the earliest generations whose lives approached a thousand years. In that genealogy it helps show that humanity has physically deteriorated through declining longevity after the Flood. The nine generations after the Flood average 332 years of life, compared with 912 years for the nine generations before the Flood. The downward course continued to seventy years in the time of Moses and to about thirty-five years at present.