>Year Birth of: Age Siring Children
>? Adam 130
>? Seth 105
>? Enos 90
>? Cainan 70
>? Mahaleel 65
>? Jared 162
>? Enoch 65
>? Methuselah 187
>? Lamech 182
>? Noah 500
>? Sem 102
>? Flood -Couldn't resist :-)
>? Arphaxad 35
>
>? Cainan ?
>
>2311 Salah 35
>2281 Heber 30
>2247 Peleg 30
>2217 Reu 30
>2185 Serug 30
>2155 Nahor 29
>2126 Terah 130
>1996 Abraham 99
>1896 Isaac 58
>
>How many other gaps exist that are not filled in?
>
>Of Cainan you wrote:
>
>>Left him out because I don't have any record of his age.
>
>This is exactly my point. Because you have no record of his age, your
>chronology is wrong. Adam was not created in 4004 B.C. and it raises the
>issue of how many more gaps exist in that genealogy. The fact that there
>are 10 generations before the flood and 10 after up to Abraham has the
>appearance of a memory device. Because of this gap you can not critize
>someone who believes that the creation did not occur in 4004 B.C. Their
>position is firmly planted in Scriptural authority.
>
I took a little time this weekend to read the geneologies in Gen 10 & 11
and in Luke 3 in both the KJV and NIV. Interestingly enough, my NIV has
footnotes attached to the Genesis verses (From memory, I believe they were
Gen 10:24 & 11:13) that adds Cainan to the list. In Gen 11, the footnote
goes on to say that the Septuagint adds (again quoting from my poor memory)
"... Arphaxad was 35 when he begat Canain. Canain was 130 when he begat
Salah and lived xxx(?) more years begatting sons and daughters."
Apparently Luke's geneology corresponds with a version of the Septuagint
that was not used in the KJV translation (and only used for footnotes in
the NIV). Does this mean we should move creation back to 4134 B.C.? ;-)
Steve Smith
[The opinions expressed here are my own
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