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TABLE 5. Extra 166 years from Adam to Solomon’s Temple
	Masoreh Text (Preserved in King James Version)								Rabbinic View
Adam Seth Enos Cainan Mahalaleel Jared Enoch Methuselah Lamech				130 105 90 70 65 162 65 187 182								130 105 90 70 65 162 65 187 182
From Adam to Noah				1056								1056
Noah				502								502
Shem				98								98
From Adam to Flood				1656								1656
Shem Arphaxad Selah Eber to Peleg (Fall of Babel)				2 35 30 34								2 35 30 34
From Adam to Babel (birth of Peleg)		251 x 7 =			1757							1757
Peleg Reu Serug Nahor Terah				30 32 30 29 130		130 – 60 = 70						30 32 30 29 70
From Babel to Abraham’s birth				251		251 – 60 = 191						191
From Adam to Abraham’s birth		251 x 8 =			2008	2008 – 60 =1948						1948			1948
Abraham				100								100			490 years
Isaac Jacob				60 91								60 91
From Abraham to Joseph’s birth				251								251			251
From Adam to Joseph’s birth		251 x 9 =			2259	2259 – 60 = 2199						2199
			251								249			251
From Adam to the Exodus		251 x 10 =			2510	2510 – 62 = 2248						2448			2450
				251			251 + 228 = 479			479
From Adam until the era of Jerusalem					2761	2761 + 166 = 2927						2927
NOTE: The Masoreh Text has 11 jubilees (539 years) from the fall of Babel to Joseph’s 7 good years in Egypt. Actually, by counting from Adam to the fall of Babel, there were 1757 years (251 sabbaticals). From there are 251 years to Abraham, 100 to Isaac, 60 to Jacob 91 to Joseph, and 37 years to the end of the seven years of plenty in Egypt. This equals 539 years (or 7 x 77 or 49 x 11) as illustrated on the right (251 + 100 + 60 + 91 + 37 = 539). The Rabbinical view has 10 jubilees (490 years) from Shem’s birth to Isaac’s birth. It added 166 years before the first temple and subtracted 166 during the temple. If there were 292 instead of 352 years to Abraham, there would be 8 jubilees (392 years) from the flood to Isaac’s birth and seven jubilees, 490 years, from Shem’s birth to Isaac’s birth (98 + 292 + 100 = 490). If Abraham were born 292 years after the flood, that is, 502 years before the exodus (75 + 427), then the exodus was 794 years after the flood (101 + 191 + 502 = 794) and 2450 (49 x 50) years after Adam. This would place the exodus in a jubilee year regardless of whether the jubilees were 49 or 50 years apart. Moreover, the Samaritan Text has 1708 years from Adam to the fall of Babel, 49 years less than the 1757 years of the Masoreh Text (1708 + 49 = 1757).								1757 251 100 60 91 30 7 539					Adam to Babel = 251 x 7 to Abraham to Isaac to Jacob to Joseph to Joseph age 30 good yrs. end = 7 x 77 = 49 x 11

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