And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
Eber was thirty-four years old when Peleg was born. This record stands in the post-Flood genealogy that follows the era when lifespans were nearly a thousand years. After that era the average length of life decreased, so the post-Flood list shows that human lifespans had greatly decreased from the ages recorded before the Flood.
Taken together with the pre-Flood genealogy in Genesis 5, it proves that humanity has woefully deteriorated physically through decrease in longevity. The nine generations before the Flood averaged 912 years, while the nine generations after the Flood averaged only 332 years. That decline continued to seventy years in Moses' time and to about thirty-five years at present. The record also belongs to the genealogy from Shem to Abraham that fixes the overlapping lifetimes of the patriarchs. By that reckoning Shem lived 150 years after the birth of Abraham and 50 years after the birth of Isaac, so that all God taught Adam could be communicated directly from Adam to Methuselah to Shem to Abraham and Isaac to Jacob, the father of the tribes of Israel.
Eber was thirty-four years old when Peleg was born. This record stands in the post-Flood genealogy that follows the era when lifespans were nearly a thousand years. After that era the average length of life decreased, so the post-Flood list shows that human lifespans had greatly decreased from the ages recorded before the Flood.
Taken together with the pre-Flood genealogy in Genesis 5, it proves that humanity has woefully deteriorated physically through decrease in longevity. The nine generations before the Flood averaged 912 years, while the nine generations after the Flood averaged only 332 years. That decline continued to seventy years in Moses' time and to about thirty-five years at present. The record also belongs to the genealogy from Shem to Abraham that fixes the overlapping lifetimes of the patriarchs. By that reckoning Shem lived 150 years after the birth of Abraham and 50 years after the birth of Isaac, so that all God taught Adam could be communicated directly from Adam to Methuselah to Shem to Abraham and Isaac to Jacob, the father of the tribes of Israel.