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Genesis – TP #2.3 – Days and Months

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The deluge began on the twenty-seventh day of the second month, and the ark ran aground on the twenty-seventh day of the seventh month. The total is five months. The text also says the time was 150 days. That would make each month 30 days long. With the moon cycle repeating every 29.5 days, the months usually alternate between 29 and 30 days. What is going on here? There are a few possibilities, and we will go through each one.

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Genesis – TP #2.2 – The Flood, part 2

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Genesis 7:11 “In the six hundredth year in the life of Noah, during the second month, on the twenty-seventh of the month, on this day all the springs of the deeps burst forth, and the waterfalls of the heavens were opened.”

The flood account provides a specific day for the start of the deluge. Most likely, the second month refers to the year of the flood and not to the second month of Noah’s six hundredth year. But that still doesn’t tell us when the flood occurred. If you read the previous post with the Excel sheet, you know why it is impossible to pinpoint the year of the flood. But why tell us the day?

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