Peg responds to me:
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the bible does not explain with any detail the creation of the universe.
Indeed. This isn't about that. It is simply about time.
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I've got a slightly different figure. when I added up the years from Adam to the birth of Noah I got 1,056 years.
Indeed. I overlooked the "hundred" part of either Jared, Methuselah, or Enoch so that's why I'm a hundred years off.
5:3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth:
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5:6 And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:
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5:9 And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:
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5:12 And Cainan lived seventy years and begat Mahalaleel:
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5:15 And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
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5:18 And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:
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5:21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
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5:25 And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech.
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5:28 And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:
5:29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.
But, this pushes the total number of years only to about 5900, which is still amazingly off and is still consistent with the claim that the Bible says life, the universe, and everything are only about 6000 years old.
Moving on: Noah was 600 when the flood started:
7:6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
And the flood lased a year:
8:13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
So from the 1056 years we had previously, we add another 601 to get from the birth of Noah to the end of the flood:
1056 + 601 = 1657
Then we get a bunch of begats:
11:10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
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11:12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
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11:14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
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11:16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
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11:18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu
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11:20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
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11:22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
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11:24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
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11:26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
So adding all of those up:
2 + 35 + 30 + 34 + 30 + 32 + 30 + 29 + 70 = 292
So we've got 1657 + 292 = 1949 years from the beginning to Abraham.
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Tehrah died at 205 yrs of age when Abraham was 75yrs old.
Where do you find this? Indeed, the text says that Terah died at 205, but it doesn't say that Abraham was 75 at the time. It simply says that Terah died at 205:
11:32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
And, in fact, that would be a severe mathematical error on the part of the Bible to have Abraham born when Terah was 70 and yet be only 75 when Terah died 135 years later.
In fact, the text indicates that Abraham leaves Haran while Terah is still alive:
12:1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
12:2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
12:3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
12:4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
Thus, we get 1949 + 75 = 2024 years to get from the beginning to the covenant.
By the way: You've skipped the year of the flood. Noah is 600 when it starts, 601 when it ends, and Arphaxad is born two years after that.
Rrhain
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