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From Peleg to Abraham In two
separate places, it is stated that Babel fell and the nations were divided
when Peleg was born. How much time was between his birth and the birth of
Abraham? And
by counting the births from Peleg to Abraham, the King James text says there
were 30 years from Peleg to Reu, plus 32 to Serug, plus 30 to Nahor, plus 29
to Terah, plus 130 years to Abraham. This equals 251 years. So the pattern
continued to emerge. What next? What were the odds that the period from Adam to
the fall of Babel might be divisible by 251? From Adam to Peleg Without much effort, I simply counted the years
between generations between Adam and Peleg, which are recorded in Genesis 5
and 11. In
the King James text, there were 1757 years, or 251 times 7, that is, 251
sabbaticals. From Adam to the fall of Babel, there were 251 years times
seven. From Adam to the birth of Abraham, there were 251 years times eight.
From Adam to the birth of Joseph, there were 251 years times nine. Perhaps
the exodus will be 251 times 10. The 251-year pattern had
definitely emerged in only this one day of research. Why hasn’t anyone else
found it in the last 2,000 years? And would there be an important event 251
or 502 years after these patriarchs? Were there 251 years times ten from Adam
to the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt? What clues do we have? Does the pattern
continue? Are there other patterns involved? Abraham’s 251-Year Pattern
to the Exodus
To
solve the period between Abraham and the exodus, it was decided about 2,280
years ago that Abraham was called at the age of 75, when he first entered his
promised land. Allegedly, there were 215 years from then until his offspring,
the Israelites, would enter Egypt and another 215 years until their exodus
from Egypt. This would make 430 years from Abraham’s calling until the exodus
as implied in Exodus 12:40. I don’t know of anyone who has challenged this
pattern. Abraham’s 427-Year Pattern to the
Exodus
As we
will see, there would be 212 years in Egypt instead of 215, if the exodus
were in a sabbatical year. This is discovered when we begin a new sabbatical
cycle after the flood. By
counting the numbers between generations from the flood to Abraham’s birth,
there were 352 years. There were 427 years from the flood to when Abraham was
age 75, when he left Haran and entered the land of Canaan, after his father
died. Since
427 years equals 7 times 61, Abraham must have turned 75 during a sabbatical
year. This being the case, if the exodus were in a sabbatical year, it could
not be 430 years later. 430 is not evenly divisible by 7. It
would be more likely there were another 427 years from Abraham’s 75th
year to the exodus. If so, the exodus again would have been in a sabbatical
year. There were 1656 years from
Adam to the flood and 854 years from the flood to the exodus (427 times 2).
This makes 2510 years to the exodus, or 251 times 10 (1656 + 854 = 2510). I
could not have solved this enigma without knowing the 251-year pattern. If
Abraham were called the first time when he was 72, that is, 430 years before
the exodus, this would make him 502
(251 times 2) if he had lived until the exodus, and Joseph’s bones
would have been 251 when the Israelites carried them from Egypt. Finding this required counting
the sabbaticals from the flood to the exodus, a period of 854 years (427 x
2). However,
if we can show that the exodus was in a sabbatical year and that Abraham was
called in a sabbatical year, the period could not be 430 years because it is
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