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Genesis – TP #1.5 – Genealogy of Adam

Posted on September 29, 2021 | Comments Off on 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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Genesis – TP #1.1 – Creation, part 3

Posted on September 26, 2021 | Comments Off on Genesis – TP #1.1 – Creation, part 3

The days of creation continued:

Day 6 – Livestock, Creeping things, Beasts of the field, Man and Woman
Day 7 – Rest

Genesis 1:24 “And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.”

There are two things to notice from this verse. First, the phrase “according to their kinds”, and secondly, that God divided those kinds into three different categories.

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