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TABLE 7. Adding 401 years to the Samaritan Text (Flood in 1708 AM) Since the Samaritan text has 1708 years from Adam to the fall of Babel and 401 years from the flood to Babel, the following shows how easily a scribe could add 401 years to the text to allow 1708 years from Adam to the flood. If it is possible, then it might be probable. 101 years are added between Methuselah and Lamech to allow Methuselah to live until the flood as in other versions.
Gen. 11	Postdiluvian		Samaritan Text Revised (+ 401 Yrs.)				Masoreh Text
	Patriarchs		A.M.		After Man	Septuagint Text	A.M.	After Man
1	Adam
			130				130
2	Seth		130				130
			105				105
3	Enos		130				130
			90			190	90
4	Kenan		325				325
			70			170	70
5	Mahalaleel	Years Added 395					395
		100		165	(was 65)	165	65
6	Jared			560			460
		100		162	(was 62)	162	162
7	Enoch			722			622	+365=987 (7x141)
		100		165	(was 65)	165	65
8	Methuselah			887			687
		101		168	(was 67)	167	187
		401		1055			874
9	Lamech			53			182
				1108			1056
10	Noah			502			502
				1610	(70 x 23) (161 x 10)		1558
11	Shem			98			98
	Date of the Flood			1708	AM (was 1307)		1656	+ 52 = 1708

Note: Again, Methuselah lived until the year of the flood. The Samaritan text presently has 401 years from the flood to the fall of Babel (when Peleg was born).

In the Samaritan text, Enoch’s rapture was 141 sabbaticals (987 years) after Creation, and Shem was born two jubilees (98 years) before the flood. The rabbinical date for Creation is 3761 BC but was likely four jubilees (196 years) earlier, in 3957 BC. Their calendar subtracted 60 years between Abraham and his father and dated the temple as 832 BC instead of 968 BC (-136 years). These add up to 196 years. This suggests there were sabbaticals and jubilees prior to the flood.

The Samaritan text has the flood (1307) being 251 years after Noah’s birth (1056) in the Masoreh text. This suggests there was also known a 251-year pattern before the flood. Noah waited 502 years (251 x 2) before having Shem.

Since I found these patterns, it seemed reasonable to investigate how and why changes were made in the texts. The middle column in the above table is based upon speculation (i.e., 401 extra years are added to the Samaritan text). It is an attempt to restore an obvious 427-year pattern consisting of 61 sabbaticals (7 x 61 = 427). I propose that the original text had 1708 years (427 x 4) to the flood and that someone deleted 401 years to make it 1307 years (1708 - 401 = 1307). Methuselah lived 887 after Adam plus another 821 years, to the year of the flood in 1708.

Noah allegedly preserved one original text, not three different ones. The original text with the 427-year pattern likely became corrupt or extinct.

If the Book of Jubilees dealt with sabbaticals and jubilees, then which text was used? In Jubilees 5:22, “Noah made the ark in all respects as he was commanded, in the twenty-seventh jubilee of years (26 x 29 = 1274 years), in the fifth week 4 x 7 = 28 years), in the fifth year (1274 + 28 + 5 = 1307).

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