Genesis 10:25 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided, and his brother’s name was Joktan.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

To Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg [division], because [the inhabitants of] the earth were divided up in his days; and his brother's name was Joktan.

American Standard Version (1901)

And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.

Common English Bible

To Eber were born two sons: The first was named Peleg, because during his lifetime the earth was divided. His brother’s name was Joktan.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And to Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth became divided, and his brother's name was Joktan.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And to Heber were born two sons: the name of the one was Phaleg, because in his days the earth was divided: and his brother's name Jectan.

Genesis 10:25 Cross References

Genesis 10:21

To Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, children were born.

Genesis 10:26

Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

Genesis 10:32

These are the families of Noah’s sons, according to their genealogies, in their nations, and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.

Genesis 10:5

From these the coastland peoples spread. These are the descendants of Japheth in their lands, with their own language, by their families, in their nations.

1 Chronicles 1:19

To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg (for in his days the earth was divided), and the name of his brother was Joktan.

Job 15:19

to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them.

Acts 17:26

From one ancestor he made all peoples to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live,

Deuteronomy 32:8

When the Most High apportioned the nations, when he divided humankind, he fixed the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the gods;