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NASB | Genesis 1:5 God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 1:5 And God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. |
Subject: Age of earth according to bible? |
Bible Note: The truth of the matter is that the Bible, being grounded in history, is filled with chronological data that may be used to establish a relative age for the earth. The Bible, for example, provides impressive chronological data from Adam to Solomon. The death of Ahab has been determined to be 853-852 B.C., and terefore the reign of Solomon (forty years, 1 Kings 11:42) can be dated at 971-931 B.C. According to 1 Kings 6:1, 480 years before Solomon's fourth year of reign (967-966 B.C.), Moses brought the Israelites out of Egypt. The date of the Exodus is 1446/1445 B.C. To this date is added the years of sojourn in Egypt (215 years), thereby producing the date of 1661 BC as the year Jacob went into Egypt. Interestingly, the Bible records Pharaoh's query of Jacob's age in Genesis 47:9. That age was 130 and that makes the year of Jacob's birth 1791 BC (Gen 25:26). Isaac was 60 when Jacob was born, which would place the birth of Isaac at 1851 BC. Abraham was 100 when Isaac was born, therefore his birh was in 1951 BC. (Gen 21:5). The chronology from Abraham to Adam is recorded in two separate genealogical tables-Genesis 5 and 11. According to Genesis 12:4, Abraham was 75 when he left Haran, presumably after Terah died at 205 years; thus Abraham was born when Terah was 130, albeit he is mentioned 1st by importance when Terah started having sons at the age of 70 (Gen 11:27; 12:4; Acts 7:4) Having est. the birth date of Abraham at 1951 BC, it is possible to work from the time of Adam's creation to Abraham in order to dicern the chronology "of the beginning." The time from the creation of Adam to Seth is 130 years (Gen 5:3), the time from Adam to Noah was 1,056 years, and the time from Noah's birth to the flood was 600 years (Gen 7:6), or 1656 AA (After Adam). Shem was 100 and begat Arphaxad 2 years after the Flood (the earth was not dry for more than a year; cf. Gen 7:11 and Gen 8:14; see also Gen 11:10) in approx. 1659 AA. The Bible indicates that "Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Salah"; however, Luke 3:36 may complement the chronological table of Genesis 11 with the insertion of Cainan between Arphaxad and Salah, which indicates Arphaxad possibly was the father of Cainan. When the ages of the remaining patriarchs in Genesis 11 are considered at the time they begat sons, one observes that Terah was likely born around 2000 AA, and bore Abraham 130 years later (in approx. 2130 AA). Simple arithmatic-1951 BC added to 2130 AA-places the creation date at approx. 4081 BC (give or take a few hundred years) the Flood would have occurred around 2425 BC. References: Thompson, Bert (1999) "The Bible and the Age of the Earth" |