Part 8 (2/2)

The deluge occurred, according to the Septuagint, in the year of the world 2,242, and, by adding up the generations previous to Methusaleh's--

Adam..............................................230

Seth..............................................205

Enos..............................................190

Cainan............................................170

Malaleel..........................................165

Jared.............................................162

Enoch.............................................165

.................................................1287

* Sharpe's History of Egypt, page 196.

--we shall find that he was born in the year of the world 1,287. He lived 969 years, and therefore died in 2,256. But this is fourteen years after the deluge.

The Rev. Dr. Lightfoot, who wrote about 1,644, fixes the month of the creation at September, 5,572 years preceding the date of his book, and says that Adam was expelled from Eden on the day in which he was created.* In the London _Ethnological Journal_, for which I am indebted to the kindness of its Editor, an able ethnologist and careful thinker, the reader will find a chronology of Genesis ably and elaborately examined. At present, for our immediate purpose, we will take the ordinary. English bible, which gives the following result:

From Adam to Abraham (Gen. v and xi)............. 2008

From Abraham to Isaac (Gen. xxi, 5)............... 100

From Isaac to Jacob (Gen. xxv, 26).................. 60

From Jacob going into Egypt (Gen. xlvii, 9)......... 130

Sojourn in Egypt (Exod. xii, 41)..................... 480

Duration of Moses* leaders.h.i.+p (Exod. vii, 7; x.x.xi, 2). 40

Thence to David, about............................. 400

From David to Captivity, fourteen generations (27), about twenty-two reigns..........................478

Captivity to Jesus, fourteen generations, about...... 593

4234 Less disputed 230 years of sojourn in Egypt......230

4004 From Adam to Abraham the dates are certain, if we take the bible statement, and there is certainly no portion of the orthodox text, except the period of the Judges, which will admit any considerable extension of the ordinary Oxford chronology.

* Harmony of the Four Evangelists, and Harmony of the Old Testament.

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