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1056
Noah born.
600
Add age of Noah at the Flood (Gen. 7: 6).
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1656
The Flood.
Here is the most venerable family document in the world, the family history of the
ancestors of all mankind. To remove it from the book is to leave mankind without a
record of its beginning, and more serious still, to snap the link that binds Adam, the first
head of the race, to Christ, the true Head and Saviour of mankind.
#8.
The chronology and typical dates of the Flood
(Gen. 7:, 8:).
pp. 230 - 232
The simple, straightforward register of births and deaths that provides the
chronological link between Adam and the Flood, carries with it the conviction of truth.
We now come to the record of the flood itself and upon examination find in it a
number of interrelated dates so connected with the narrative that they can be neither
removed nor altered without dislocating the whole. Seen in their true place, as records of
actual fact, they vivify the story and place the narrative upon the high ground of actual
history.
Let us first of all assemble our data.
"For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty
nights" (Gen. 7: 4).
"And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth"
(Gen. 7: 6).
"And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the
earth" (Gen. 7: 10).
"In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of
the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the
windows of heaven were opened, and the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty
nights" (Gen. 7: 11, 12).
"And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days" (Gen. 7: 24).
"And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the
hundred and fifty days the waters were abated" (Gen. 8: 3).
"And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon
the mountains of Ararat" (Gen. 8: 4).
"And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on
the first day of the month were the tops of the mountains seen" (Gen. 8: 5).
"And it came to pass at the end of the forty days, that Noah opened the window of the
ark which he had made" (Gen. 8: 6).
"He stayed yet another seven days: and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark"
(Gen. 8: 10).