As Methuselah was not one of the eight persons that went into the ark, where was he during the Flood? According to the Septuagint Genesis, the Flood occurred fourteen years before the death of Methuselah. 4. "Of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female. Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind; two of every sort shall come unto thee" (Gen. vi, 19, 20). "Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female" (vii, 2, 3). Referring to the above, the celebrated Jewish commentator, Dr. Kalisch, says: "Noah was commanded to take into the ark seven pairs of all clean, and one pair of all unclean, animals, whereas he had before been ordered to take one pair of every species, no distinction whatever between clean and unclean animals having been made.... We do not hesitate to acknowledge here the manifest contradiction." 5. "And Noah was five hundred years old; and Noah begat Shem" (v, 32). "And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth" (vii, 6). "Shem was a hundred years old, and he begat Arphaxad two years after the flood" (xi, 10). If Noah was five hundred years old when he begat Shem, and six hundred years old at the time of the Flood, Shem was one hundred years old at the time of the Flood. If Shem begat Arphaxad two years after the Flood, he was one hundred and two years old when he begat Arphaxad. 6. "And Arphaxad begat Salah" (Gen. x, 24). "And Arphaxad begat Shelah" (1 Chron. i, 18). "And Arphaxad begat Cainan, and Cainan begat Salah" (Genesis, Sept. Ver.). "Which was the son of Sala, which was the son of Cainan, which was the son of Arphaxad" (Luke iii, 35, 36). According to the Hebrew Genesis and Chronicles, Arphaxad was the father of Salah; according to the Septuagint Genesis and Luke, Cainan was the father, and Arphaxad the grandfather of Salah. 7. "The woman [Sarah] was taken into Pharaoh's house" (Gen. xii, 15). "And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me?" (18). "And Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah" (xx, 2). "Then Abimelech called unto Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us?" (9). It may be claimed that both Pharaoh and Abimelech took Sarah. But it is evident that these are both legends of the same event, or, rather, different and conflicting forms of the same legend. The first belongs to the Jehovist, the second to the Elohist. 8. "And Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.... And into the land of Canaan they came" (Gen. xii, 4, 5). "And Terah lived seventy years and begat Abram" (xi, 26). "And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years" (32).