Enoch’s Years & Start of Noah’s Flood

This review is offered to better understand the 365/366D per year. For Jared was contemporary
events, calendar, and times around Noah’s era. with Noah for 366 years and Enoch, Jared’s son,
For some think Enoch was translated to save him lived a total of 365Y. Also seen in table are
Elder’s Years with Noah and death in Years Before the Flood inverted numbers for
Mahalaleel and Jared. This
Years w/Noe na na 79 174 234 366 na 600 595 na
could allude to the
Who\Who Adam Seth Enos Cain’n Mah’l Jared Enoch Meth Lam Noe alternating year lengths of

Adam 130 na - - - - - ——- ——- na 365 and 366 days in our

civil calendar.
Seth 105 105 - - - - - ——- ——- ——
No 360 day long Solar
Enos 90 90 90 - - - - ——- ——- ——
Year Some think because
Cainan 75 75 75 75 - - - ——- ——- —— during the flood, mention

Mahalaleel 65 65 65 65 65 - - ——- ——- —— is given of a 5 month

Jared 162 162 162 162 162 162 - ——- ——- ——

period of 150 days that
Noah’s solar year must be
Enoch 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 ——- ——- ——
only 360 days. A 360 day
Methuselah 187 187 187 187 187 187 187 187 ——- —— long solar year is just a

Lamech 182 182 182 182 182 182 182 182 182 na physical impossibility.

Noe2Flood 600 600 600 600 600 600 600 600 600 600
What was indicated is at
least a half year of 30 day
Total Age -930 -912 -905 -910 -895 -962 -365 -969 -777 -950
months are needed for a
BeforeFlood 731 619 521 426 366 234 669 0 5 -350 working calendar. The
from the wickedness upon earth in Noah’s era. ancient Nile River
But Enoch was taken nearly 7 decades before civilizations, Egypt & Ethiopia, both used a 12
Noah was even born & 669 years before the month -30 day calendar & intercalated 5 or 6
flood in Noah’s 600th year. This is shown by the days. These intercalated days kept the solar
table of years for Adam’s seed as found in planting year aligned with the annual flood
Genesis chapter five. Death in Years before flood season of Nile river.
is sum of Begotten Yr + 600 - Age@death. If this The 120 Years Another reason to review these
value exceed 600, the elder passed before Noah numbers, is that some think Noah was 120 years
was born. Noah lived another 350 years after the building the ark. However the 120 years are
flood receded. mentioned as God’s limit upon the age of man. It
Years of the Elders The chart details the years could also be taken as the years before the flood
of the Elders from Adam to Noah. Only 3: Adam, in Noah’s 600th year, when God became
Seth, & Enoch were gone before Noah’s time. Of exhausted with mankind’s evil ways? The most
these 3, Seth passed away closet to Noah’s birth, likely case is that upon or after Noah’s 500 year
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19Y prior. Enoch was taken up 69Y prior to Noah did God commission building of the Ark &
birth & 669Y before the flood. Jared, Enoch’s sealed it as sea worthy in Noah’s 600th year.
Father, died 234Y before flood. Methuselah died The Mosaic calendar mentioned only 12 months,
in selfsame year the flood started. Noah’s father, in line with Egyptian practice: 1Chrn27:1-15;
Lamech, died 5Y before the flood. Only Adam, 1Kg4:7; 2Kgs25:27; Est3:7; 13; 8:12; 9:1;
Seth, & Enoch passed before Noah was born. Jer52:31; Ezek32:1; Rev22:2; 11:2-3. An extra
Perhaps, Enoch & his father’s (Jared) span upon 13 month was a Babylonian addition, as were
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earth hint at our civil calendar days/year the changes to the names of the months.
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