In the days of Peleg, the land was divided up, and therefore the name Peleg means “division” in the Hebrew language.
Peleg [was the second man who] died before his father.
In his time, the tower [of Babel] was built; men began to speak many different languages, instead of the common language which they had used before; and each nation had its own language, as the Holy Scriptures say [ Genesis, 11'5-9 ].
(89) Gentile writers also tell the same story; Alexander Polyhistor mentions it in his book about the Chaldaeans, and Abydenus also gives a similar account.
I have already recorded what they say in my account of the Chaldaeans.