ESV Reformation Study Bible – Gen 10:25
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Gen 10:25

10:25 Peleg. See text note. This name, from the Hebrew term for “split” or “divide,” probably prophesied the dispersal of the nations at Babel. See Ps. 55:9, where the same Hebrew term is employed in the phrase “divide their tongues.”