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Bible Chronology Charts
The Septuagint (LXX)
vs. corrupted Masoretic
"Scripture cannot be broken" (Jesus, John 10:35)
"My word will accomplish what I desire and succeed
in the purpose for which I sent it." (Isa 55:11)
Steve Rudd November 2017
See also: Author's Preface and Master Introduction
I. Septuagint Chronology of Gen 5, 11 is correct:
1. Creation dates of all reliable ancient literary sources
validate the longer Septuagint Chronology:
a. Every reliable literary source before 100 AD uses the longer
LXX chronology and not the shorter Masoretic.
2. Both Philo and Josephus were using the extant Hebrew
manuscript of their day which followed the longer LXX chronology.
a. This is a huge finding because they were NOT using the Greek
Septuagint used in Synagogues as their source text, but the Hebrew Tanakh
used in the Jerusalem Temple.
b. In fact, many scholars make the superficial (and wrong)
conclusion that Josephus and Philo used the Septuagint BECAUSE they have
the longer chronology.
c. The correct conclusion is the Philo and Josephus were using
the Pre-Masortic Hebrew Text when the numbers agreed with the Greek LXX.
3. The literary sources below become the primary proof that the
Jews around 160 AD in Zippori changed the Hebrew text for anti-Christian
theological reasons.
4. Today the Septuagint contains the original chronological
numbers for the age of the earth at 5554 BC.
225 BC: Demetrius the chronographer: 5500 BC
170 BC: Book of Jubilees: 3906 BC (estimate)
158 BC: Eupolemus: 5307 BC
10 AD: Testament of Moses: 4221 BC Follows Book of Jubilees
30 AD: Philo of Alexandria: c. 5500 BC Uses Hebrew text
60 AD: Pseudo-Philo 5886 BC
70 AD: Josephus 5467 BC
90 AD: 2 Esdras 14 5464 BC
100 BC: Testament of Levi and the Twelve Patriarchs
150 AD: Justin Martyr Jews corrupt their own Greek Synagogue Tanakh
160 AD: Seder Olam Rabbah: 3761 BC
221 AD: Julius Africanus Sextus: 5500 BC
384 AD: Vulgate by Jerome: 4114 AD Latin translation of Hebrew
400 AD: Augustine: believed both 5554 BC and 4114 BC were inspired
5. Test case for accuracy of LXX vs. Masoretic: Shem as
Melchizedek
a. Jews today believe that Shem is Melchizedek because the
Masoretic chronology has Shem living down past the birth of Jacob. It is
impossible for Shem to be Melchizedek using the Septuagint chronology
because Shem dies 600 years before Abraham is born.
b. If we can find a single ancient literary source that shows
that the Jews believed Shem was Melchizedek, this would falsify the theory
that the Jews corrupted the Hebrew chronologies of Genesis 5, 11 at Zippori
in 160 AD.
c. In fact, just like the literary sources above all validate
the longer LXX chronology, so too do all the literary sources refute the MT
chronology because none of them equate Shem with Melchizedek.
d. 100 BC: The earliest Jewish literary sources make no
connection of Shem was Melchizedek as witnessed in the Dead Sea Scrolls:
1QGenesis Apocryphon.
e. At the time of Christ, Jewish messianic expectation was of the
arrival of Melchizedek as a "heavenly being" not Shem as witnessed in
the Dead Sea Scrolls: 11QMelchizedek.
f. 160 AD: The earliest literary source that equates
Melchizedek with Shem is Seder Olam Rabbah in 160 AD
g. The Seder Olam again, is the first reference in history and
was the basis for corrupting the pre-Masoretic text in the chronologies of
Gen 5 and 11.
Primeval Chronology of Genesis 5
Greek Septuagint (LXX)
(Correct original)
Hebrew Masoretic (MT)
(Corrupted in 150 AD)
Samaritan Pentateuch (SP)
(corrupted)
Man
Age at Son's Birth
Remaining Years
Life
Age at Son's Birth
Remaining Years
Life
Age at Son's Birth
Remaining Years
Life
Adam
230
700
930
130
800
930
130
800
930
Seth
205
707
912
105
807
912
105
807
912
Enosh
190
715
905
90
815
905
90
815
905
Cainan
170
740
910
70
840
910
70
840
910
Mahalalel
165
730
895
65
830
895
65
830
895
Jared
162
800
962
162
800
962
62
785
847
Enoch
165
200
365
65
300
365
65
300
365
Methuselah
187
782
969
187
782
969
67
653
720
Lamech
1821
565
753
182
595
777
53
600
653
Noah
5022
450
950
5022
4503
950
5022
450
950
Total years4
2158 years
1558 years
1209 years
Flood5
3298 BC
2518 BC6
3108 BC
Steve Rudd 2017 AD
1. Lamech's begetting age for Noah in the LXX reads 188 but
this is a scribal error and the correct age Lamech's son Noah was born is
in his 182th year in the MT which is the autograph reading.
2. Japheth was firstborn when Noah was 500, Shem second-born when
Noah was 502 and Ham the youngest. We know for certain that Shem was not
firstborn as per Gen 11:10 and that Ham was the youngest as per Gen 9:24
which obviously makes Japheth the oldest. In Gen 10:21 English translators
are split on which of Shem and Japheth were the oldest. The Hebrew in the
MT and SP could mean either that Japheth or Shem were the older brother.
The Greek LXX calls Japheth "the great" which may mean he is older than
Shem or that he was older and/or more famous than Shem.
3. Gen 9:28-29 says Noah lived 350 years after the flood but for
a total life of 950 years. Genesis 7:6 says the flood occurred when Noah
was 600 years old.
4. Creation to birth of Shem in Noah's 502nd year as per Gen
11:10.
5. Flood occurred in the 600th year of Noah or 98 years after
Shem was begotten when Noah was 502 years old.
6. Because Jews have wrongly believed from 300 BC to the present
that Terah was 70 years old when Abraham was born instead of the correct
begetting age of 130 you must add 60 years to the MT flood date of 2458 BC
to arrive at the actual MT flood date of 2518 BC.
Primeval Chronology of Genesis 11
Septuagint (LXX)
(Correct original)
Masoretic (MT)
(Corrupted in 150 AD)
Samaritan (SP)
(Corrupted)
Man
Year at Birth
Rem./Life9
Year at Birth
Rem./Life9
Year at Birth
Rem. Years
Life9
Shem1
100
500/600
100
500/600
100
500
600
Arphaxad
135
430/565
35
403/438
135
303
438
Cainan
130
330/460
Skipped
-
skipped
-
-
Shelah
130
330/460
30
403/433
130
303
433
Eber
134
370/504
34
430/464
134
270
404
Peleg
130
209/339
30
209/239
130
109
239
Reu
132
207/339
32
207/239
132
107
239
Serug
130
200/330
30
200/230
130
100
230
Nahor
79
129/208
29
119/148
79
69
149
Terah2
130
75/205
130
75/205
708 (130)
75 (158)
145
Gen 11 Yrs3
1230 years
450 years
1100 years
Gen 5 Yrs
2158 years
1558 years
1209 years
Abram born
2166 BC
2166 BC
2166 BC
Creation4
5554 BC
4174 BC5
4475 BC
Flood6
3298 BC
2518 BC7
3168 BC
Steve Rudd 2017 AD
1. Shem begat Arphaxad at age 100 which was two years after the
flood.
2. Christians know from Acts 7:4 that Abraham was born when Terah
was 130 years old not 70. This is an interpretive variance, not a textual
one in spite of the fact that Jews from 300 BC to the present wrongly
maintain that Terah was 70 when Abraham was born.
3. Total years from birth of Arphaxad to birth of Abraham in 2166
BC.
4. Creation date is derived by adding the begetting columns in
both charts to the date Abraham was born in 2166 BC.
5. The Jews from 300 BC down to the present day wrongly set the
age of Terah at the birth of Abraham at 70 which calculates an age of the
earth at 4114 BC. The truth is that Terah was 130 years old, which
calculates age of the earth according to the MT at 4114 BC + 60 = 4174 BC.
6. Flood date is calculated by subtracting [total Gen 5 years]
from [creation date] and adding [98 years] because Shem was born in
Noah's 502nd year and the flood occurred when Noah was 600 years old.
7. Because Jews have wrongly believed from 150 BC to the present
that Terah was 70 years old when Abraham was born instead of the correct
begetting age of 130 you must add 60 years to the MT flood date of 2458 BC
to arrive at the actual MT flood date of 2518 BC.
8. While the numbers in the MT show that Terah was 130 when
Abraham was born and that Abraham left Haran at age 75 after Terah died at
age 205, the Jews incorrectly interpreted the birth of Abraham when Terah
was 70. What this meant in their interpretation, was that Tarah continued
to live in Haran for another 60 years after Abraham left for Canaan. This
was always problematic until the Christian Bible explicitly stated that
Abraham did not leave Haran until after the death of Terah at age 205 (see
Acts 7:4). The Samaritans fudged the numbers for the life span of Terah
from 205 down to 145 in order to have Terah die before Abraham left Haran.
So in the Samaritan corrupted chronology they incorrectly have Abraham born
when Terah was 70 and Terah dying at age 145 when Abraham leaves for Canaan
at age 75. But today we are certain that Terah was 130 years old when
Abraham was born which creates a huge problem for the Samaritan Pentateuch
because this means Terah dies when Abraham is only 15 years old and now
Abraham continues to live in Haran for another 60 years after Terah dies
before he leaves for Canaan. This is clear proof of a corrupt and
fabricated Samaritan chronology because the prevailing FALSE view of Jews
as far back as 150 BC to the present, is that Terah was 70 when Abraham was
begotten. Had the Samaritans just left the text alone, they never would
have been caught red handed with irrefutable proof (Abraham was not 15
years old when Terah died), that they deliberately corrupted the Samaritan
Pentateuch chronology in Gen 5,11.
9. Life numbers (total years lived) are not in the text of either
the LXX or MT. However they are added in the SP. For example, in Gen 11:11
the Samaritan Pentateuch adds the words: "All the days of Shehm [Shem]
were 600 years and he died". The SP adds the total life years lived for
each person in the Gen 11 chronology. This is a corruption of the original
text.
Septuagint (LXX) Chronology
Life
Birth
Death
Son
Adam
930
5554 BC
4624 BC
230
Seth
912
5324 BC
4412 BC
205
Enosh
905
5119 BC
4214 BC
190
Cainan
910
4929 BC
4019 BC
170
Mahalalel
895
4759 BC
3864 BC
165
Jered
962
4594 BC
3632 BC
162
Enoch
365
4432 BC
4067 BC
165
Methuselah
969
4267 BC
3298 BC
187
Lamech
777
4080 BC
3303 BC
182
Noah
950
3898 BC
2948 BC
502
Flood
3298 BC
Shem
600
3396 BC
2796 BC
100
Arpachshad
565
3296 BC
2731 BC
135
Kainan
460
3161 BC
2701 BC
130
Shelah
533
3031 BC
2498 BC
130
Eber
504
2901 BC
2397 BC
134
Peleg
339
2767 BC
2428 BC
130
Reu
339
2637 BC
2298 BC
132
Serug
330
2505 BC
2175 BC
130
Nahor
208
2375 BC
2167 BC
79
Terah
205
2296 BC
2091 BC
130
Abraham
175
2166 BC
1991 BC
100
Isaac
180
2066 BC
1886 BC
60
Jacob
147
2006 BC
1859 BC
90
All dates are in BC.
To convert to After Creation, subtract from 5554
The corrupt Masoretic (MT) Chronology:
Masoretic Chronology chart:
Life
Birth
Death
Son
Adam
930
4174
3264
130
Seth
912
4044
3132
105
Enosh
905
3939
3034
90
Cainan
910
3849
2939
70
Mahalalel
895
3779
2884
65
Jered
962
3714
2752
162
Enoch
365
3552
3187
65
Methuselah
969
3487
2518
187
Lamech
777
3300
2523
182
Noah
950
3118
2168
502
Flood
2518
Shem
600
2616
2016
100
Arphachshad
438
2516
2078
35
Shelah
433
2481
2048
30
Eber
464
2451
1987
34
Peleg
239
2417
2178
30
Reu
239
2387
2148
32
Serug
230
2355
2125
30
Nahor
148
2325
2177
29
Terah
205
2296
2091
130
Abraham
175
2166
1991
100
Isaac
180
2066
1886
60
Jacob
147
2006
1859
90
All dates are in BC.
To convert to After Creation, subtract from 4174
The Septuagint LXX
"Scripture Cannot Be Broken"
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Six Bible Manuscripts
1446 BC
Sinai Text (ST)
1050 BC
Samuel's Text (SNT)
623 BC
Samaritan (SP)
458 BC
Ezra's Text (XIV)
282 BC
Septuagint (LXX)
160 AD
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