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NASB | Genesis 11:10 ¶ These are the records of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old, and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood; |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 11:10 ¶ These are the records of the generations of Shem [from whom Abraham descended]. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the flood. |
Subject: Did Shem exit the Ark at 98, outlv Abrm? |
Bible Note: Pastor Glenn Greentwiga mentioned something that completely slipped from my mind. Reese and many other “date sitters” (for a lack of a better term, no offense meant) worked back through the Bible from known dates that could be established and verified in secular history. In other words they used archeological discoveries that established a date and worked backwards. One was King Solomon reign, another was the Exodus from Egypt recorded in both Egyptian and other cultural records. Now we come to an interesting point and the one that started this whole discussion. You did your forward dating and mentioned Jacob was about 50 when Noah’s son Shem died. I commented that Reese had Shem dying about the time of Jacob’s birth. A fifty-year discrepancy, no big thing but interesting and enough to keep us occupied for the last couple of days. :-). I went back into Reese and found he does not include the name of the “second” Cainan in his dating. Let me present this theory If Reese going back is fifty years later and your going forward is fifty years sooner. Perhaps the reconciliation is a missing GENERATION. Cainan if added would make Jacobs birth later thus reconciling Reese to your calculations that Jacob would have been fifty when Shem died. EdB |