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GENESIS #4
Date of Creation, Noah’s Ark & The Flood
Transmission of the Genesis story -
Methuselah lived 969 years Gen. 5:25-27, his life over-lapped Adams by 243
years, Noah by 600 years and Seth by 98 years, thus forming a connecting
link between the Garden of Eden and the post flood world. Shem then lived
till 75 years after Abraham entered the Promise Land.
Date of Creation - Ussher ’s
Chorological Order places date of creation at 4004 BC, The Septuagint (Greek
O.T.) some 1,500 years earlier. The Hebrew Bible shows some 1,656 years
between Creation & Flood. When was the Flood? If the Egyptian Kings list is
correct then the Septuagint date of 5,500 to 5,900 BC less 1,656 years. If
there is duplication in the Kings list and some of the kings of upper &
lower Egypt are concurrent instead of
consecutive then 4,004 BC less 1,656 years is 2,348 BC.
Noah ’s
Ark - approximately 450 feet long x 75 feet wide x 45 feet tall = 1,518,750
cubic feet, which is the storage capacity of 1,000 train box cars - an
enormous ship. A little smaller than the Battle ship Texas. The Ringling
Brothers Barman & Bailey Circus came to town in 56 box cars. Noah & the
Flood Genesis 5:28 through Genesis 6:17
Jesus Believed in Noah ’s
Flood Cf: Matt. 24:34-39
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