timeline of patriarchs (Moses, exodus, genesis, myths, gnostic)

[gnostic]

I was wondering if someone could help me?

Last year, I had used the Genesis to work out the timeline from Adam to Joseph, and I had recently post this in my new website called Dark Mirrors of Heaven.

Although, this is completed, I get stuck at this stage. Have anyone worked out the time period between Levi and Moses?

I know that there is a bit of record on Moses's family in Exodus 6:14-27, but it make it difficult to work out from one generation to the next. All I have is the ages of their deaths, from Levi to Moses' father. I know how old Levi was when he died, but not his age when Kohath was born. Moses' line is Levi, Kohath, Amram and then Moses.
I know that Moses died 120 years old, and the exodus from Egypt started when he was 80 (because they had been wandering through the wilderness for 40 years). But how old was Moses, when his son was born.

In Genesis 5, 10 and 11, you can estimate the time between the one patriarch being the father of the next future patriarch being born and the time of his death. Exodus 6 doesn't provide us with that extra date. Without the extra date, you can't do a proper calculation.

[Francine]

Originally Posted by gnostic

In Genesis 5, 10 and 11, you can estimate the time between the one patriarch being the father of the next future patriarch being born and the time of his death. Exodus 6 doesn't provide us with that extra date. Without the extra date, you can't do a proper calculation.

You can skip all that by remembering that it is 480 years from the Exodus to the Temple.
1Kgs.6:[1] And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.

[gnostic]

Thanks, Francine. This is an old topic, so finally someone reply.

Do you think 430 years, a bit excessive (between the time Jacob wen to Egypt and the Israelites left Egypt)?

The "430 years" come from Exodus 12:40-41?

There are only 2 generations between Levi and Moses. The period of Abraham's birth and Jacob's death is only 307 years, and these 3 patriarchs lived longer than those between Levi and Moses, which is why I think the calculation is wrong in Exodus 12.

[Francine]

Originally Posted by gnostic

Thanks, Francine. This is an old topic, so finally someone reply. Do you think 430 years, a bit excessive (between the time Jacob wen to Egypt and the Israelites left Egypt)?

The 430 years are given by Exodus 12:40, and this whole exercise is based on the belief that the figures in the bible are true. Jacob was 130 years old when he arrived in Egypt (Genesis 47:9). This is all the information you need to get from the Patriarchs to the Kings of Judah/Israel. From there you arrive at the date of the destruction of Jerusalem determined by secular and Jewish history, 587 BC.

[alwayswondering]

I don't have anything useful to add to this discussion but I do want to thank Gnostic for the time and effort put into the research as well as the website. It's good reading. Thanks.

[gnostic]

Thank you, alwayswondering.