Genesis, v. 3.-" And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image, and called his name Seth" AGE A.M. B. C. 1 4059 v. 6.-" And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos" 105 235 3824 v. 9." And Enos lived ninety years and begat Cainan". v. 12.-" And Cainan lived sev enty years and begat Mahalaleel" v. 15.-" And Mahalaleel lived 90 325 3734 70 395 3664 sixty and five years, and begat Jared" 65 460 3559 v. 18.-" And Jared lived an hundred and sixty and two years, and begat Enoch" 162 622 3437 v. 21." And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah" 65 687 3372 v. 25.-" And Methuselah lived an hundred and eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech" v. 28.-" And Lamech lived an hundred and eighty and two years, and begat a son" B 187 874 3185 182 1056 3003 Genesis, vii. 6.-"And Noah was six hun- dred years 1056 3003 600 1656 2403 Note.-Here we have the number of years before the law, or from the Creation, namely, 1656 years, and, according to this, 2403 years before Christ. Genesis, viii. 13.-" Flood on the earth for one year" xi. 10. tions of Shem. "These are the genera Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood". 1 1657 2402 2 1659 2400 xi. 12.-" And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah" 35 1694 2365 xi. 14." And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber" xi. 16." And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg" xi. 18.-"And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu" xi. 20." And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug". xi. 22.-" And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor". xi. 24." And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah" xi. 26.-" And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram (a), Nahor, and Haran" 30 1724 2335 34 1758 2301 30 1788 2271 32 1820 2239 30 1850 2209 29 1879 2180 70 1949 2110 Note. Here I vary from all other chronologies a period of 60 years, namely in the age of Terah. And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran." (Gen. xi. 32.) Saint Stephen tells us (Acts, vii. 4) that, after the death of his father, Abraham removed from Haran, or, as he calls it, Charran, to the land of Canaan. Now, in Gen. xii. 4, we are told (a) Abram, according to the Hebrew, was born in the 70th of Terah; according to the Samaritan, in the 130th of Terah. that Abraham was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Charran. Then, again (Gen. xi. 26), we are told that Terah was seventy years old when Abraham was born; and yet, in verse 32 of the same chapter, it is affirmed that Terah died, being two hundred and five years old. But at this rate Terah must have lived sixty years after Abraham's going from Haran; for seventyfive, the number of Abraham's years when he left Haran (Gen. xii. 4), being added to the seventy, the number of Terah's (Gen. xi. 26) when he begat Abraham, would make 145 years only: whereas the account in the text of Genesis is that he lived 205 years. (Gen. xi. 32.) Here then is the sixty years I do not approve of, and from which I differ. This, therefore, I think must proceed from a fault in the text of Moses. I say I think it is, but in my own mind I feel positive that it really is; but it is not because I feel such I wish others to do the same. No my ideas may be wrong, my opinions erroneous. And yet of the 205 years which are given to Terah in the text (Gen. xi. 32), when he died at Haran, he only lived 145 according to the present literal_reading of the English version. Now the only reason I can suggest, should my idea prove to be wrong, is this: that, instead of Abraham being the eldest (and I take it for granted that he was, as he stands first in the text, Gen. xi. 26), he must have been the youngest, and not born until his father, Terah, was 130 years old: then adding Abraham's number (75), when he left Haran, to his father's age, 130, when he was born, would make the number spoken of in the text-205 years as the days of Terah at his death. But, remember, this is only man's idea (I mean the latter part of this subject), and quite contrary to the version of the Scriptures, and therefore it behoves us to prefer the Bible as our guide, in preference to the opinion of man. Now what I want to impress upon all is this: that from the calling of Abraham in his seventy-fifth year, the beginning of the Exode at the death of his father (St. Stephen, Acts, vii. 4; St. Paul, Heb. xi. 8), or the commencement of the wanderings of the children of Israel in Egypt, to the bringing of them out of that land by the hand of Moses in his eightieth year (Exodus, vii. 7), there elapsed exactly 430 years; which I will endeavour to shew and explain, as far as my knowledge will allow, from Scripture, after I have entered the Exode. Genesis, xii. 4-14.-Abraham, seventy- AGE A.M. B.C. 1949 2110 75 2024 2035 St. Stephen (Acts, vii. 6), Gen. xv. 13 430 2454 1605 Note.-Here I will explain what I have just previously stated; namely, that from the calling of Abraham in his seventy-fifth year, when he left Haran (for then began the Exode), to the bringing of them out of the land of Egypt by the hand of Moses in his eightieth year, there elapsed exactly the time specified in the text. (Exodus, xii. 40, 41.) In Genesis, xii. 4, we have the commencement, which agrees with St. Paul (Heb. xi. 8), St. Stephen (Acts, vii. 4). In Exodus, xii. 40, 41, and St. Paul to the Galatians, iii. 17, we have the duration. In Exodus, vii. 7, we have the ending of the Exodus. Now in these texts we have: first, the beginning; secondly, the duration; thirdly and lastly, the ending. Now let us take one step further, and see how literally this was fulfilled from that blessed and sacred page, the Bible, which so many despise and few understand-I mean, comparatively speaking. Shewn thus: From the calling of Abraham in his seventy-fifth year to to the birth of Isaac in his one hundredth year (Gen. xxi 5) there elapsed twenty-five years. Isaac sixty when Jacob was born (Gen. xxv. 26): 60 added to 25 make 85. Jacob was 130 when he stood before Pharaoh. (Gen. xlvii. 9.) In Gen. xli. 46 we read |