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BIBLICAL CRITICISM.
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Biblical Criticism.
BIBLICAL CRITICISM .
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TIIF . AGE OF THE WORLD .
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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
str , I request a place in your valuable publication for the following statement of the very great difference- | here is between the English version of the Old Testament and that of the LXX . in regard to the age ot the world- And permit me to ask , what i ^ otive can be assigned for the conduct of Jewish translators in departing so far from the account of the matter given in the Jewish Scriptures ? That this departure was intentional and studied , appears from the pains they took , through the greater part of the fifth chapter of Genesis , to conceal it . To instance in verses 3 , 4 , 5 .
According to the English Version . V . 3 . And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years , anil begat -a son , and called his name Setli . 4 . And the days of Adam , after ' he had begotten Seth , were eight hundred years . 5 . And all the days that Adam lived wejjc nine hundred and thirty years *
According to the Version of the LXX . 'V . 3 . And Adam lived fxvo hundred and thirty years > < and begat & son / and called his name Setlu 4 . And the days of Adam which he had lived after he had begotten Seth , were $£ ven hundred years . 5 . And all tlie days of Adam , which he lived ^ were nine ' h-UHbxJred an 4 thirty years .
Here it is apparent that the hundred years , which the LXX . have added to the first period of Adam ' s . life are taken off : from the seconU period of it , to make the sum total of it agree with the Hebrew . The same cartful management has been practised in -most cases through Chap , v ; In the genealogy given Chap . 'xi . it was not necessary , because the sum total of each life is not there mentioned * It inay be observed , 'however , that another descent is introduced into that chapter ; the name of Cainan being there inserted , as bemg rhe # ou < ti ArjDhaxad , and the Father of Salah ( compare Luke iii- 3 f 3 , ) The whole difference between the two versions is as follows :
According to the English Version . According t « the Version of the JLXX . From the Creation of Adam to the birth of Scth , were 130 years 5230 years * Thence to . the birth of 'Enos ( Gen / v . 3 , &c . ) 105 5 ? f ) 5 Cainan 9 O 190 MuhalalecJ 7 Q lj ? O
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1808, page 437, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2395/page/37/
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