Matthew86
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Did you have any thoughts on my reply?The most important patriarchs (after the flood) only lived to less than 200 years - while ancestors before the flood (and Noah) usually lived to 900+.
Note that there are three main versions of the numbers in the genealogies....
Genealogies of Genesis - Wikipedia
I think all three versions involve all of Noah's ancestors dying within a couple of years before the flood. I think that's a pretty impressive achievement - they didn't use our simpler math techniques.
Maybe they wanted to make the age of the earth fairly old without having to add a lot more ancestors... then after that they gradually decreased the ages until they became realistic (like Moses' 120 year life span)
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