Pre-Flood

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• I believe in the preservation of God’s Word
• I believe the Creation occurred in 4004BC. I think this is a Biblical principle, for a day is like a thousand years for the LORD.
• I am sure that the Exodus occurred in 1446BC.
• I believe the pre-flood generations lived until 1656AM
• That brings the flood to 2348BC, i.e. 4004 – 1656.
• Since Creation, the numbers 1656, 1, 902, 480 and 965 add up to 4004. These numbers represent:
  1. The pre-Flood years (biblical, calculated)
  2. The duration of the Flood (biblical)
  3. The time between the end of the Flood and the call of Abram (calculated)
  4. The time of Israel’s sojourn (biblical)
  5. The time mentioned from the exodus to the building of Solomon’s temple (biblical)

  Actual years are give or take one or two years, allow for events to occur in January or in December.

• I also believe that scripture could have been corrupted, by accident, deliberately, by misinterpretation or by injecting a certain doctrine. Isaiah 28:13 comes to mind.
• I lean heavily on the reliability of the KJV, but I do not shy away from reading and taking from other writings, like The Book of Jubilees, LXX (Septuagint) and The Book of Enoch.
• If ‘corruptions’ have entered the scripture and writings, God will make sure that the truth is still out there and His Word will prevail.
• It is absolutely clear to me that not all what is in KJV, LXX, Jubilees, Enoch is all true, but combined they will shine a light on the truth: there is no single individual book that has all truths. We are all called to find and love the truth, see Proverbs 25:2, Proverbs 16:13 and John 18:37.

• In the Book of Enoch, Enoch meets Noah. Enoch shares the visions he got from Heaven about the upcoming judgement, the Flood. I believe this and it makes sense. So the genealogy should reflect this. The only pre-flood discrepancy is when Enoch is taken.
• Only the genealogy from the Book of Jubilees supports that Enoch meets Noah, however the Flood begins 347 years too early, causing 3 of the patriarchs (Jared, Lamech and Methuselah) to survive the Flood (if their ages are correct of course).
• I believe in the “…and God saw that it was so…”-theory of the second day of creation, prophesying that the second millennium was not that good (all other creation days were good: …and God saw that it was good…) and the Flood as a judgement will come upon the Earth in the second millennium. The timeline should satisfy this theory. The LXX shows that the Flood occurs in the 3rd millennium.
• There are 500 years added to Enoch’s birth year in the LXX in comparison to the MT and 600 years in comparison to Jubilees. Too round to be a mistake or a scribal error. (NB: this does not mean that Jubilees is right)
• According to the book of Judges and the scriptures of 1Ki6:1 and Acts13:20, it becomes absolutely clear when the Exodus must have taken place. Counting back from Solomo starting the building of the Temple in 965/966BC, minus the 480 years that Isaiah claims to be between the building of the temple and the Exodus, the Exodus must have occurred in 1446BC. This year is pretty much the benchmark in finding the correct timelines before the Exodus.
• LXX: Shem and Noah have already passed away when they still need to perform the division of territories.
• LXX: after Nahor the LXX and MT are nearly similar, with regards to ages and begat-years.
• LXX: It might be coincidence that the birth year of Nahor in LXX is equal or near to the MT.
• LXX: the post-flood timeline difference between the MT and the LXX being 700 years, seems intentional not accidental. At least the omission of Cainan looks intentional (45 years).
• What happened to MT, Jubilees and Enoch after Moses died is only speculative but were certainly not spared the human touch in terms of copying, translating and modifying.
• MT: Zooming in on the first 8 generations, we learn that Cainan is missing, although he is part of the genealogy by Luke in Chapter 3:36.
• JUB: the numeric difference between the MT/MO and Jubilees of the years before the flood is 347 years (1656 – 1309). Suppose this difference is made up of 1) omitting 300 years from before the Flood, 2) Missing Cainan’s birth year (when Arphaxad is 45) and the 3) 2 years after the Flood when Shem begat Arphaxad. The differences between all bibles seem to be largely differences of exactly hundred(s) of years and there seems to be an issue with Cainan, being Arphaxad’s son or not. Jubilees looks to be edited in the centuries that followed Moses’s death and might have been subject to gross copying and interpretation errors, deliberate or accidental, showcasing that in the odd year differences.
• MT: the MT was only completed or compiled around 1000AD and did not exist in Jesus’s time.
• The Tower of Babel event occurred in protest against God’s commandment to fill the earth and should have happened shortly after Noah’s declaration of inheritance or the division of Earth among his sons.
• In the MT, the Tower of Babel event occurred approximately 120 years after the flood. Given the amount of people needed to build structures like that, this seems very short.
• This might have happened because Cainan was left out of the Genesis 11 genealogy.
• Counting back from 1446BC, The Sojourn of Israel and the genealogies in Genesis 11, the end of the Flood can be calculated to 2300BC, which is 48 years shorter than the biblical theory (MT perspective).
• If this number of years is inserted in the MT, the birth of Cainan becomes plausible again and the flood occurs 168 years after the Flood, adding 2 extra generations for population growth.
• Assuming an average birthrate of 12 children per woman and a starting age of giving birth at 20, would probably produce enough of a population to build a large project. This is following the MT text, assuming the Tower of Babel happened 120 years after the flood.
• Below is a table of population growth based on the assumption that women start giving birth at 20. The number that follows is #Children, the number of children per woman.
• The headers are listing the simulation durations for the different bibles, the MT, the MO (My opinion), The Book of Jubilees and the LXX. The numbers are the number of years after the Flood for when the Tower of Babel event occurs.
• The numbers in the table represent the total population at the time of the Tower of Babel event.
• Even with only 3 children per woman, the LXX would populate the earth with 25 million people after 745 years. I don’t believe the family sizes were that modest after the Flood (there were no concerns about overpopulating the earth and climate change yet {ed. I could not resist}).

• Starting Age, #Children	120,MT	168,MO	262,JUB	745,LXX
  20,4	384	3.072	32.768	n/a
  20,6	4.374	94.478	5.739.563	n/a
  20,8	24.576	898.779	230.087.534	n/a
  20,10	93.750	5.208.333	n/a	n/a
  20,12	254.487	21.987.700	n/a	n/a