Person · 1693–2126 AM · 2068 BCE — 1635 BCE
Shelach שֶׁלַח
son of Arpachshad, father of Ever
"And Shelach lived thirty years and begot Ever" (Bereshit 11:14). He lived four hundred and thirty-three years and outlived his own grandson Peleg by a hundred and thirty—such is this stretch of the Torah: the older generations are still living when the younger have died.
Nothing else is said of him. He is a link, named for the count.
On the timeline
1658 · 2103 BCEThe Line of Shem: Arpachshad, Ever, Peleg and the Division of the Earth1657 · 2104 BCEThe Sons of Noah and the Spread of the Nations
Related
Sources
Tanakh
- Bereshit 11:10–26 — the ten generations from Shem to Abraham: age at each son's birth and the years lived after
- I Chronicles 1:17–27 — the same line from Shem to Abram, repeated in the Writings
Basis: stated in the Tanakh.