Ages of Patriarchs

[Shawn_Murphy (Shawn T Murphy)]

Dear Daniel,
I have earlier posted the research done by Robert Strauli on Jacob. He suggests that the total years Jacob two lives adds up to the 147 years shown in the Bible, not one lifetime.

Biblical genealogies must be entirely factual? The Japanese counter-example

Thank you Scott for the bring this down to Earth for us. the Bible has one other complication and that it is not intended to be a genealogy but a spiritual document. So, when the Bible says that " And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died. (Genesis 5:17), it does not say that Adam’s spirit lived in the same human body for 930 years, but that his spirit resided as a human for a total of 930 years. In addition, we also have evidence of the famine in Egypt, t…