Hi Jim,
You wrote:
Age son (after flood)
Shem 2
Arpachshad 35
Shelah 30
Eber 34
Peleg 30
Reu 32
Serug 30
Nahor 29
Terah 70
292
Your mistake lies in reading Gen. 11:26 to say that Terah became the father
of Abraham at age 70. It does not sat that. It says that Terah had three sons
after he was 70 years old. Like Gen. 5:32 tells us Noah had three sons after
he was 500 years old. Gen. 11:26 mentions Abraham first simply because
Abraham was the most noteworthy of those three sons. Haran was probably the
oldest of the three since he died before Abraham and before his father Terah,
and because Terah named his new settlement after him which he apparently
founded after leaving Ur. In fact, Abraham was living in Haran when God
called him to move to Canaan following the death of his father Terah. That
was when Terah was 205 and Abraham was 75. (Gen.11:26 - 12:5)
Thus, Terah was 130 years older than his son Abraham.
You listed Terah as being 70 at the birth of Abraham. So add 60 years to your
292 total. That will bring you to 352. You also failed to add the one year
for the length of time which the flood lasted. That will bring you to 353
years from the beginning of the flood to the birth of Abraham and 428 years
from the beginning of the flood to the time Abraham entered Canaan at age 75.
Mike
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