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  • From: James Read <J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk>
  • To: Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Toladot and the Book of Terah
  • Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 20:57:01 +0100

He won't answer this. He'll just sidestep it in some way.

James Christian



Quoting Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>:

Incidentally, Karl, how do you explain the following:
Gen 11:17 Eber lived 430 years after giving birth to Peleg

Gen 11:18 Peleg gave birth to Reu at 30 years of age
Gen 11:20 Reu gave birth to Serug at 32 years of age
Gen 11:22 Serug gave birth to Nahor at 30 years of age
Gen 11:24 Nahor gave birth to Terah at 29 years of age
Gen 11:32 Terah lived to be 205 years before he died.

So, Terah died 205 + 29 + 30 + 32 + 30 years after Peleg
was born. That comes out to 326 years.
But Eber lived 430 years more after Peleg was born.

Terah died 360 years after Eber was born.
But Shelah lived 403 years more after Eber was born.

Terah died 390 years after Shelah was born.
But Arpachshad lived 403 years more after Shelah was born.

Terah died 425 years after Arpachshad was born.
But Shem lived 500 years more after Arpachshad was born.

So when Terah died, Eber, Shelah, Arpachshad, and Shem
were all supposedly still alive.

How would Terah know their ages at their death to write
about them in his hypothetical book when he died while
they were still alive?

Yitzhak Sapir
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