Selah (biblical figure) explained

Selah
Birth Date:	1691 AM
Death Date:	2124 AM (aged 433)
Parents:	Arpachshad (or Cainan)
Children:	Eber, and other sons and daughters

Selah (Hebrew: שֶׁלַח|translit=Šélaḥ), Salah or Sala (Σαλά – Salá) or Shelah is an ancestor of the Israelites and Ishmaelites according to the Table of Nations in Genesis 10. He is thus one of the table's "seventy names". He is also mentioned in Genesis 11:12–15, Chronicles 1:18–24, and Luke 3:35–36.

In the ancestral line from Noah to Abraham, he is the son of Arpachshad (in the Masoretic Text and Samaritan Pentateuch^[1]) or Cainan (in the Septuagint) and the father of Eber. The name Eber for his son is the original eponym of the Hebrew people, from the root ‘abar, "to cross over".^{[2] [3] [4]}

The Gospel of Luke and Book of Jubilees both agree with the Septuagint in making Selah the son of Cainan, adding the information that his mother was Milcah (the daughter of Madai), while his wife is named as Mu'ak, daughter of Kesed (another son of Arphachsad).

The death age of Selah is given as 433 (Masoretic),^[5] 460 (Septuagint),^[6] and 460 (Samaritan).^[7]

Henry M. Morris states that Arpachshad, Selah, and Eber are listed as the most important sons since they were in the line of the promised Seed of the Woman.^[8]

See also

• Salih of Thamud

Notes and References

1. https://sites.google.com/site/interlinearpentateuch/genesis-bereshit/chapter-10-16-32 Interlinar Pentateuch
2. Benyamim Tsedaka, The Israelite Samaritan Version of the Torah: First English Translation Compared with the Masoretic Version, Bereshith 11
3. Mark Shoulson, The Torah: Jewish and Samaritan versions compared (Hebrew ed.), בראשית 11
4. For differences in genealogy between the Masoretic Text, Samaritan Pentateuch, and Septuagint, see .
5. The Koren Jerusalem Bible: The Hebrew/English Tanakh, בראשית 11, Koren Publishers
6. The Septuagint with Apocrypha: Greek and English, Genesis 11, by Sir Lancelot C.L. Brenton
7. The Israelite Samaritan Version of the Torah: First English Translation Compared with the Masoretic Version, Bereshith 11, by Benyamim Tsedaka
8. Book: Morris, Henry M.. Henry M. Morris

   . Henry M. Morris. The Genesis Record: A Scientific and Devotional Commentary on the Book of Beginnings. 259. 1976. Baker Book House. Grand Rapids, Michigan.