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Genealogies Excel Sheet and pdf

As promised, here is a chart of the Genesis 5 and 11 genealogies. As you’ll see, there are blue columns and white columns. The blue columns contain the numbers provided in the Septuagint; the white columns contain the numbers from the Hebrew Masoretic. Those pairs of columns have six categories. They display the age of the fathers at the time of the births of their respective sons, then years for the rest of their lives, and the total number of years that they lived. From those numbers, we can determine the numbers that fill the following two columns, which show each person’s birth year and death year, counted from the creation. They are not BC (BCE) years. The last column is from Adam to Lamech only because it shows the number of years before the flood in which they died.

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Genesis – TP #1.5 – Genealogy of Adam

In the post on Cain and Abel, I shared that Adam was either 130 or 230 years old when Seth was born. The genealogies of Genesis chapter 5 and chapter 11 are where the Hebrew Masoretic Text and the Greek Septuagint disagree. I will get to that in a minute, but first, let’s mention some differences between Adam and Seth that the Scripture points out.

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Did God Walk with Adam in the Garden?

Genesis 3:8 says, “They heard the sound of the Lord God walking about in the garden in the evening, and both Adam and his wife hid from the face of the Lord God in the middle of the tree of the garden.”

That would suggest that God was in the habit of walking with Adam in the garden. Is that reading into the text? Possibly, but consider this. The text suggests that Adam and Eve hid from God because of the guilt of their sin. Adam’s answer to God for why he was hiding was because they were naked and ashamed. Adam said that he heard God walking in the garden. If that hadn’t happened before, then how would Adam recognize that sound?

Or look at it this way, if God were not in the habit of walking with Adam in the garden, then wouldn’t it make more sense that Adam and Eve were hiding because they didn’t know who else would be in the garden? Why would Adam say they hid because of the shame of their nakedness since they had already covered themselves? And why be ashamed in front of a stranger? No, the One they were hiding from was one they were familiar with walking in the garden.

God communicated many things to Adam. He could have done it audibly from the heavens, or He could have spent time with Adam in the garden. The reasoning for this conclusion may make more sense in the next post on Cain and Abel.

Genesis – TP #1.3 – The Fall

The Bible was written by about 40 men over 1500 years and contains 66 books (or more), and the whole collection contains one central message. The account of the Fall in Genesis 3 is the entire reason the Bible was written. Without this chapter, the Bible would be nothing more than a collection of wonderful stories and historical accounts. This chapter could be the outline for everything that is to come. Let’s see what it has to say.

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Genesis – TP #1.2 – Adam and Eve

Genesis chapter two gives more details about day six of creation and Adam and Eve, whereas chapter one just says that God made male and female in the image of God. But before that, it says something interesting about the vegetation.

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Genesis – TP #1 – B’reisheet Summary

Genesis 1:1 through 6:8 is only five chapters and a few verses, but there is so much packed into this first potion. It covers the creation, the fall, Cain and Abel, the genealogy of Adam down to Noah, and the mention of the Nephilim. We’ll go through all of that with the upcoming posts, with just a summary listed here.

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