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Also known as Ever

Eber (; ; ) is an ancestor of the Ishmaelites and the Israelites according to the Generations of Noah in the Book of Genesis () and the Books of Chronicles ().

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Eber imagined in the 1553 Promptuarium Iconum Insigniorum
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Selah
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PelegJoktan

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Eber (; ; ) is an ancestor of the Ishmaelites and the Israelites according to the Generations of Noah in the Book of Genesis () and the Books of Chronicles ().

== Lineage == Eber (Hebrew: Ever) was a great-grandson of Noah's son Shem and the father of Peleg, born when Eber was 34 years old, and of Joktan. He was the son of Shelah, a distant ancestor of Abraham. According to the Hebrew Bible, Eber died at the age of 464.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eber” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.