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Peleg (פֶּלֶג / פָּלֶג "Division", Standard Hebrew Péleg / Páleg, Tiberian Hebrew Péleḡ / Pāleḡ) is one of the two sons of Eber, the eponymous ancestor of the Hebrews, mentioned in the so-called "Table of Nations" in Genesis x, xi and 1 Chronicles i. According to Genesis 10:25, it was during the time of Peleg that "the earth was divided", after the failure of Nimrod's Tower of Babel. Peleg's son was Reu. The meaning of the earth being divided has been speculated to be a either a literal division of the continents (as from the super-continent Pangaea), or a patriarchal division of the eastern hemisphere among the three sons of Noah to Europe, Asia and Africa.

Peleg is also the name of one of the owners of the Pequod in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.

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