Genesis 10:24

begat Shelah R.V. marg. "The Sept. reads begat Cainan, and Cainan begat Shelah." This addition is followed in Luke 3:36.

Eber See note on Genesis 10:21. Eber is evidently the most important name in this genealogy. As the grandson of Arpachshad, his name stands geographically in some kind of connexion with Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad and Aram. Êberin the Hebrew means "on the other side of." The ancestors of Israel are described as those who "dwelt of old time beyond the River" (êber ha-nâhâr= "on the other side of the Euphrates river"). See Joshua 24:2.