And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters. However, from that information it has been deduced that Peleg was born in B. But after the flood, in the days of Peleg, the earth was divided.
Who was Peleg? Related Posts Does each inhabited world have its own Adam and Eve? Was Shem the great high priest Melchizedek? It is about time that this the biblical ground was reclaimed. If you could not trust the numbers in the chronologies of the Bible , why should you trust the words between the numbers?
What limits would you place on your unbelief? There are three errors common in biblical chronology today. First, there are those who have a low view of the Bible and ignore its chronological data altogether. The ancient secular writers cited in the accompanying article provide independent support for the accuracy of the data in the Bible, which is based on facts, not myths as many liberals believe.
Second, there are those who would shorten the period of the divided kingdom. Edwin Thiele 9 is the main proponent of this. Thiele uses the fragmentary Assyrian chronology of the divided kingdom period by about 50 years, to fit the conjectured dates from Assyria. But this would mean that Babylon would have been founded way before Peleg and the Tower of Babel!
Third, there are those who would lengthen the biblical chronology. They arbitrarily added about years to the biblical chronology for the period between Noah and Abraham, to make it agree with the works of Manetho. If what they had done was correct, then Peleg would be dead and gone as would most of the leaders of the division of the nations before the Tower of Babel happened. Many modern biblical archaeologists, like the translators of the LXX, are just as guilty of the same thing today.
Just as the LXX's translators listened to the fairy tales the Egyptian priests told them, most modern biblical scholars follow the just so stories told by secular historians and archaeologists who push the founding of Babylon and Egypt back thousands of years Answers in Genesis is an apologetics ministry , dedicated to helping Christians defend their faith and proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ.
Donate Now. View Cart. Share: Email Using: Gmail Yahoo! Outlook Other. Babylon begins The year was BC. The Bible and chronology There are three errors common in biblical chronology today. Footnotes Baumgardner, J. The former can mean to split or cleave and the latter to scatter What is being divided appears different since the Hebrew verb is different in both verses.
But this is still different from verse 32 where [ ] parad is used. However, they each appear in the same context. Working backward, the Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament points out that parad is in reference to the scattering of peoples under comment discussing parad. They in turn reference A. This Hebrew word palag is used only three times in Scripture outside of Genesis In 1 Chronicles it repeats Genesis In one case it refers to a splitting of a water channel when it overflows in poetic Job The other usage is in Psalm where it refers to splitting of languages.
David was speaking of his enemies and was asking the Lord to judge them with the splitting of their tongues. Obviously, David was conjuring thoughts of the Tower of Babel and tongue-shifting there. So there would be no reason to distance from this plain interpretation.
Context, however, is not determined merely by how close to each other words are, but on the thrust of the text— where it is going, what it is trying to say. Context is not just a collection of nearby words, but a unit of thought.
Attempting to interpret them as a contextual unit can be a recipe for exegetical disaster. It is a mistake to jump to the conclusion that because two similar but non-identical words are near each other, they are necessarily synonymous. They may be, but to come to that conclusion requires us to carefully analyze the thought structure of the passage. When attempting to understand the meaning of a word that is not immediately clear, one should gradually broaden the range of context.
Since we have multiple instances of parad and puwtz in chapters 10 and 11 as well as 14 instances of eretz from through , we should be able to confidently determine their meanings. As pointed out in the AiG article, biblical references using palag are limited to four: Genesis ; its repeat in 1 Chronicles ; Job ; and Psalm An excellent Hebrew scholar of the recent past, Dr.
Bernard Northrup, did the requisite lexical research [off-site link] and derived the following observations:. Neither parad nor puwtz carry that shade of meaning. Palag is not a word you would normally expect to find used to describe the dividing up of people; both parad and puwtz are much more appropriate, and in fact, this is what we observe in Genesis 10 and 11—verse is the exception.
To apply palag to the division of people takes one out on an exegetical limb, but both parad and puwtz fit perfectly. We should not ignore this fly in the exegetical ointment. Northrup was not alone in noting the water connection that characterizes most instances of palag and its derivatives.
John Morris and James J. Johnson of the Institute for Creation Research made similar observations. And a significant reason he came to this conclusion is that he, like Northrup before him, also noted the connection of palag division to the action of water. We will now do our own close examination of several verses in Genesis 10—11 that include our three key verbs, replacing the English translation from the NASB with the Hebrew words behind them so we can understand the verses with greater precision.
Doing so will also help us see how the noun eretz relates to those verbs. So in this verse, eretz is not used metaphorically, but refers to geographical land areas.
Note well that parad separation, in this verse at least, is something that happens to people , not land; and eretz refers to geographical locations where the people went to live. It will interest us to see if this pattern holds up in the next few verses we study. Though this verse contributes nothing to our understanding of parad, palag and puwtz, it includes the noun eretz. Here it refers, as in verse 5, to a geographical region; in this case, the whole world. Thus, in neither of the first two instances of eretz in Genesis 10 does it metaphorically apply to people.
In this survey I will skip over other instances of eretz—Gen. I will just observe that in all of them, eretz unambiguously has a geographical sense. You can check that for yourself. Here we get our first exposure to the verb puwtz, carrying the meaning "spread abroad. Recall that in verse , parad separation happened to the people. But parad separation does not happen in this verse; instead, palag division occurs. We now ask, does palag, like parad, also refer to something that happens to people?
At this point, having no other instances of palag in the immediate context to check for insights, we recall the lexical study done by Northrup above. If the waters were in one place, then it is a hint that perhaps there was one giant continent and the multiple continents we observe today came some time after creation Donald Chittick The Controversy , Portland, Oregon, Multnomah Press, , p.
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