Genesis - 11:15



15 and Shelah lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Eber, and became the father of sons and daughters.

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Explanation and meaning of Genesis 11:15.

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And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
and Shelah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Sale lived after he begot Heber, four hundred and three years; and begot sons and daughters.
And Shelah lived after he had begotten Eber four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
And Salah liveth after his begetting Eber four hundred and three years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
And after the birth of Eber, Shelah went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters:
and Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Eber, and fathered sons and daughters.
And after he conceived Eber, Shelah lived for four hundred and three years, and he conceived sons and daughters.
Et vixit Selah, postquam genuit Eber, tres annos et quadringentos annos: et genuit filios et filias.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

And Salah lived, after he begat Eber, four hundred and three years,.... In all four hundred and thirty three:
and begat sons and daughters; of whom also there is no other account: the same Arabic writer (c) says, he died in the month, Adar, which is called Barhamath, at the close of A. M. 2950; and the Jewish chronologer (d) says, he died in the fourteenth year of Jacob.
(c) Ut supra, (Apud Ibid.) p. 261. (d) R. Gedaliah, ut supra. (Shalshalet, fol. 1. 2.)

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