And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
After fathering Eber, Salah lived another 403 years and had additional sons and daughters. This record belongs to the Shem-to-Abraham genealogy that establishes overlapping patriarchal lifetimes, in which Adam was still alive when Methuselah was 243 years old, Methuselah was still alive when Noah's son Shem was 98, Shem lived 150 years after Abraham's birth and 50 years after Isaac's birth, and Abraham lived until Jacob and Esau were 15 years old while Isaac lived until they were 120. Because of those overlaps, what God taught Adam could pass directly through Methuselah and Shem to Abraham and Isaac and then to Jacob, the father of the tribes of Israel.
Salah's 403-year remaining lifespan reflects the decline in longevity after the Flood compared with the patriarchs before Noah, who generally lived nearly a thousand years. Together with the pre-Flood genealogy, the post-Flood genealogies show a fall in average lifespan from 912 years for nine generations before the Flood to 332 years for nine generations after the Flood. That decrease in longevity proves humanity's woeful physical deterioration. The decline continued further to seventy years in Moses' time and to about thirty-five years at the present.
After fathering Eber, Salah lived another 403 years and had additional sons and daughters. This record belongs to the Shem-to-Abraham genealogy that establishes overlapping patriarchal lifetimes, in which Adam was still alive when Methuselah was 243 years old, Methuselah was still alive when Noah's son Shem was 98, Shem lived 150 years after Abraham's birth and 50 years after Isaac's birth, and Abraham lived until Jacob and Esau were 15 years old while Isaac lived until they were 120. Because of those overlaps, what God taught Adam could pass directly through Methuselah and Shem to Abraham and Isaac and then to Jacob, the father of the tribes of Israel.
Salah's 403-year remaining lifespan reflects the decline in longevity after the Flood compared with the patriarchs before Noah, who generally lived nearly a thousand years. Together with the pre-Flood genealogy, the post-Flood genealogies show a fall in average lifespan from 912 years for nine generations before the Flood to 332 years for nine generations after the Flood. That decrease in longevity proves humanity's woeful physical deterioration. The decline continued further to seventy years in Moses' time and to about thirty-five years at the present.