Peleg was thirty years old when Reu was born, standing as one link in the post-Flood line running from Shem toward Abraham. Together with the rest of that genealogy his age fixes a chain of overlapping lifespans by which what God taught Adam could be handed down directly from person to person. Adam was still alive when Methuselah was 243 years old, and Methuselah was still alive when Shem was 98, while Shem outlived the birth of Abraham by 150 years and the birth of Isaac by 50 years. Abraham remained alive until Jacob and Esau were 15 years old and Isaac until they were 120, so knowledge passed from Adam to Methuselah to Shem to Abraham and Isaac and then to Jacob the father of the tribes of Israel.
This record belongs to the post-Flood genealogies that show human life greatly shortened after the Flood from the nearly thousand-year ages reached by the patriarchs from Adam to Noah. The nine generations recorded after the Flood averaged 332 years of age. The nine generations recorded before the Flood averaged 912 years of age.
Peleg was thirty years old when Reu was born, standing as one link in the post-Flood line running from Shem toward Abraham. Together with the rest of that genealogy his age fixes a chain of overlapping lifespans by which what God taught Adam could be handed down directly from person to person. Adam was still alive when Methuselah was 243 years old, and Methuselah was still alive when Shem was 98, while Shem outlived the birth of Abraham by 150 years and the birth of Isaac by 50 years. Abraham remained alive until Jacob and Esau were 15 years old and Isaac until they were 120, so knowledge passed from Adam to Methuselah to Shem to Abraham and Isaac and then to Jacob the father of the tribes of Israel.
This record belongs to the post-Flood genealogies that show human life greatly shortened after the Flood from the nearly thousand-year ages reached by the patriarchs from Adam to Noah. The nine generations recorded after the Flood averaged 332 years of age. The nine generations recorded before the Flood averaged 912 years of age.