│ Lived before │ After birth │ Total. │ birth of sons. │ of sons. │ ───────────────┼─────┬─────┬─────┼─────┬─────┬─────┼─────┬─────┬───── │ HEB.│ SAM.│ SEP.│ HEB.│ SAM.│ SEP.│ HEB.│ SAM.│ SEP. ├─────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼───── Adam │ 130 │ │ 230 │ 800 │ │ 700 │ 930 │ │ Seth │ 105 │ │ 205 │ 807 │ │ 707 │ 912 │ │ Enos │ 90 │ │ 190 │ 815 │ │ 715 │ 905 │ │ ───────────────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼───── Cainan │ 70 │ │ 170 │ 840 │ │ 740 │ 910 │ │ Mahalaleel │ 65 │ │ 165 │ 830 │ │ 730 │ 895 │ │ Jared │ 162 │ 62 │ 162 │ 800 │ 785 │ 800 │ 962 │ 847 │ 962 Enoch │ 65 │ 65 │ 165 │ 300 │ 300 │ 200 │ 365 │ │ ───────────────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼───── Methuselah │ 187 │ 67 │ 187 │ 782 │ 653 │ 782 │ 969 │ 720 │ 969 Another │ │ │ 167 │ │ │ │ │ │ translation │ │ │ 165 │ │ │ │ │ │ of Septuagint │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ───────────────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼───── Lamech │ 182 │ 53 │ 188 │ 595 │ 600 │ 565 │ 777 │ 653 │ 753 Noah │ 500 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ───────────────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴───── It will be seen by the above table that the Hebrew text affords data which give us 1,656 years from the creation of Adam to the Flood, for we must add 100 to Noah’s age of 500, since the Flood began when Noah was 600 years old (Gen. 7:6). The Samaritan text takes away 100 years from the life of Jared, 120 from that of Methuselah, and 129 from that of Lamech, as compared with the Hebrew text, making the Flood occur 1,307 after Adam’s creation, while the Septuagint adds 100 to the lives of each of the first five and to that of Enoch, and six to that of Lamech, making the Flood begin 2,262 years after the creation of Adam, according to one reading of the Septuagint, or 2,242 according to another. So that the aggregates of time from the Creation to the Flood, as deduced from the Hebrew, the Samaritan, and the Septuagint, severally are 1,656, 1,307, and 2,262. The Samaritan is the oldest manuscript, but it cannot be made certain that the dates as given in that manuscript have suffered no alteration; and hence the Hebrew account has been followed in our entire English version, the chronology of which was arranged by Archbishop Ussher (usually written Usher), A. D. 1580,[8] but it “is of no inspired authority and of great uncertainty.”