And Arphaxad lived, after he begat Salah, four hundred and three years,.... In all four hundred and thirty eight; the Vulgate Latin wrongly reads, three hundred and three:and begat sons and daughters; not mentioned by name: he died, as the above Arabic writer says, in the month Nisan, A.
M. 2696; and a Jewish writer says he died in the forty eighth year of Isaac, and who also says , that in his days they began to build the city of Babel. Apud Ibid. p. 260. R. Gedaliah, ut supra. (Shalshalet, fol.
1. 2.) Ib. fol. 75.