Figure 1 · Regular MT · All dates BC

Three birth intervals lead to Peleg

Arphaxad2456 BCBirth
35years
Shelah2421 BCBirth
30years
Eber2391 BCBirth
34years
Peleg2357 BCBabel marker
35 + 30 + 34 = 99 yearsArphaxad’s birth → Peleg’s birth.
Peleg: 2357–2118 BC · 239 years.
Normal Flood: 2458 BC, two years before Arphaxad. Birth is the adopted Babel marker; Genesis says “in his days.”
Figure 1. Peleg’s normal MT birth is 2357 BC: 35 + 30 + 34 = 99 years after Arphaxad. His 239-year life ends in 2118 BC. Babel is marked at his birth in this chronology; Genesis says the division occurred in his days. The nodes are not spaced to scale.Sources: Genesis 11:12–19 · File 18 §2.2 and normal-sojourn conversion.
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Show image versionRegular MT births: Arphaxad 2456 BC, then 35 years to Shelah 2421, 30 to Eber 2391, and 34 to Peleg 2357. The intervals total 99 years. Peleg lives 239 years and dies in 2118 BC. His birth is the adopted Babel marker. The normal Flood is 2458 BC, two years before Arphaxad.