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B. C.

CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX.

To Noah, during this period, being about 500 years old, | 1 Peter iii.
are born three sons-Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

2448 Lamech, the ninth from Adam, dieth, aged 777: he is
2353 the first man who is recorded to have died a natural death
before his father.

2349

2348

2347

2247

2234

2233

2188

2126

1998

1996

1986

1925

Methuselah, the oldest man on record, dieth a short time
before the flood, aged 969.

The flood comes upon the earth in Noah's 600th year.

We have followed our translators in marking the year of the
flood 2349 before Christ, but Dr. Clarke reckons it 2348, or A.M.
1656, the year of the world's creation, according to the Hebrew
computation; according to the Septuagint, 2242; but according to
Dr. Hales, 2256; making a difference between the Hebrew and
Dr. Hales of 600 years. The Hebrew months were lunar, twelve
of them making a year of 354 days; but as Noah was in the ark
eleven days more (See Gen. vii. 11, 13, compared with viii. 14), he
was, of course, in the ark (as Dr. C. remarks) a complete solar
year.

§ II. FROM THE FLOOD TO THE CALL OF ABRAHAM.

The flood ceasing, Noah, with his family and the crea-
tures he carried in with him, leave the ark.

Noah offers a burnt-offering, and God covenants with
him to drown the earth no more.

He plants vines, and is intoxicated with their fruit.
Noah predicts the future fortunes of his sons.

Peleg born; so called because in his days the earth was
divided.

Nimrod, the son of Cush, begins to be a mighty one in
the earth, and lays the foundation of the Assyrian empire
in Nineveh, its capital.

A part of the human family travelling from the East, rest
in the plain of Shinar, and there begin the tower of Babel,
with ambitious and probably idolatrous intentions; but the
Almighty confounds their language and designs.

Mizraim, grandson of Ham, leads colonies into Egypt,
anciently called "the land of Ham," and lays the founda-
tion of that kingdom.

Terah, father of Abram, born.

Noah dieth, aged 950 years, 350 of them subsequent to

the flood.

Abram born-75 years before his father Terah's death.
Sarah, Abram's wife (called also Iscah), daughter of Ha-
ran, Abram's brother, born ten years after her husband.

20.
Gen. v. 32.
31.

27.

Gen. vii.11.

Gen. viii.
18.
20-22.

Gen. ix. 9,
20.

25-27.

Gen. xi. 16.

Gen, x. 8.

Gen. xi.
4-9.

Ps. cv. 23.

Isa. xix. 11.

Gen. xi. 24.

Gen. ix.
28, 29.

Gen. xi. 32.

29, 30.

Terah, with his son Abram, Lot, Sarai, and the rest of Gen. xi. 31.
his family, went forth from Ur, of the Chaldees, to go into

the land of Canaan, and came and dwelt in Haran five Gen. xiv. 1,
years, at the end of which Terah dies there.

About this time also, Chedorlaomer, King of Elam, subdueth
the Kings of Sodom, Gomorrah, and other cities of the
plain, who serve him twelve years.

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1921

1920

1913

1911

1897

1896

1892

1871

1859

1856

1846

1837

1821

1817

1760

§ III, FROM THE CALL OF ABRAM TO THE DEPARTURE

OF ISRAEL OUT OF EGYPT.

Abram, on his father's death, again called to leave Haran
and his father's house, and go into Canaan, which he does
at the age of 75.

A famine, in Canaan, compels Abram and his family to
go down into Egypt, from whence are reckoned the 430
years of Israel sojourning in Egypt. Abram returns back,
and Lot with him; soon after which they part, the former
going to Hebron, and the latter to Sodom.

Gen. xii. 1.

Heb. &

Gen.10.

Exodus

xii. 40.

Gen. xii

1-13.

The King of Sodom and four other kings rebelling against Gen.xiv.19.
Chedorlaomer, he subdues them, when Lot is taken prisoner,
but rescued by Abram, who is blessed by Melchisedeck.
Abram complaining for the want of an heir, is promised

a son, with a numerous seed, and the land of Canaan for
his inheritance.

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Sarai being still barren, gives to Abram Hagar, her Gen. xvi. 2
handmaid, who, next year, bears him Ishmael.

God, making a covenant with Abram, changes his name
to Abraham, and appoints circumcision as a seal of this
covenant. Sarai's name is also changed to Sarah; and
Isaac, the fruit of her own body, is promised to be his heir.
Abraham entertains three angels unawares, who inform
him of the judgment to be inflicted upon Sodom, when he
interests himself on the behalf of Lot and his family.

Lot, by divine command, flees from Sodom; but his wife
lingering and looking back, is changed into "a pillar of
salt." Lot obtains permission to stop, for the present, at
Zoar; but soon after betakes him to the mountain, with his
daughters, where two children are born to him in incest.
Isaac born in the 100th year of Abraham's age.
Sarah, seeing Ishmael mock Isaac, insists on their being
turned out of the house and family, to which Abraham re-
luctantly agrees: but they are wonderfully preserved by an
angel.

Gen. xvii.

Gen. xviii.

Gen. xix.

Gen. xxi.

1-8.
9-21.

Abraham, at the divine command, offers up his son Isaac; Gen. xxii.
whose life is spared, but the offering is accepted.

1-19.

Gen. xxiii.

Sarah dies at Hebron, in Canaan, in her 127th year.
Isaac marries Rebecca, daughter of Bethuel, the son of Gen. xxiv.
Nahor, in his 40th year.

Shem, the son of Noah, dieth,

Gen. xi. 11.

Esau and Jacob born in the 60th year of their father Gen. xxv,
Isaac, being twins.

Abraham dieth, aged 175.

7.

Gen. xi. 17.

Gen. xxv.

17.

Heber, the fifth from Noah, dieth; from whom Abraham
and his posterity are supposed by many to be called Hebrews.
Jacob fraudulently obtains his father's blessing, intended
for Esau; on which he is obliged to fly to Mesopotamia, to Gen. xxvii.
avoid the anger of his brother. Coming to his uncle Laban, Gen. xxviii.
he covenants to serve him seven years for his daughter Ra-Gen. xxix.

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B. C. chel; but Leah is imposed upon him; and he consents to
serve him seven years longer for the other.

1758

to

1739

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Gen. xxix.

Of these are born in succession the twelve Patriarchs.
Rachel dieth in childbed of her last, namely, Benjamin. 31, &c. to
Jacob returning from Mesopotamia, obtains a reconcilia-
tion to his brother Esau.

Joseph, being hated by his brethren, is sold to slave-
merchants. They carry him to Egypt, and sell him to Po-
718 tiphar, one of Pharoah's officers, who throws him into prison,
under the false charge of his unfaithful wife.

716

715

708

707

'06

89

35

19

77

74

Isaac dies at the age of 180, and is buried by his two
sons, Jacob and Esau.

By a mysterious concurrence of providential circum-
stances, Joseph is brought forward to interpret Pharoah's
dreams, his success in which promotes him to be governor
of the land of Egypt. Here begin the seven years of plenty,
which Joseph had predicted, during which time he ware-
houses a prodigious quantity of corn.

The scarcity now beginning, Jacob hearing that there
was corn in Egypt, sends his ten sons down to buy some.
Joseph knowing them, they are by his order imprisoned as
spies, but liberated on the promise of bringing their brother
Benjamin, for whom Simeon is detained as a pledge.

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Jacob is with much difficulty persuaded to agree to this;
but soon after Benjamin's arrival, Joseph makes himself Gen. xliii.
known to them with great tenderness, and sends for his
father to come down and live in Egypt.

Gen. xlv.

His father is at first incredulous; but convinced by a sight Gen. xlvi.
of the waggons, &c. which he had sent, hastens into Egypt
with all his family, and takes up his residence as directed,
in the land of Goshen. He arrives in the third year of the
famine, and the 130th of his age.

Gen. xlix.

Jacob adopts the two sons of Joseph (Ephraim and Ma- Gen. xlviii.
nasseh), and before his death blesses them, as also his own
sons, predicting their future history, and the birth of the
Messiah, from Judah. He died at the age of 147 years
(whereof the last seventeen were spent in Egypt), and is
with great pomp carried into Canaan, and buried in the se-
pulchre of his father.

Joseph, in his last sickness, prophecies the return of his
brethren into Canaan; and taking of them an oath to carry
his bones with them, dies at the age of 110 years.

Here ends the Book of Genesis, containing, according to our
translators, the history of 2369 years, or, according to Dr. Hales,
3619, being a difference of 1270 years. Next to Genesis, in order
of time, the Book of Job follows, written (as is generally believed)
by Moses. [But on this subject we beg to refer our readers to our
Introduction to that Book.]

Levi, grandfather to Moses, dieth in Egypt, aged 137.
Here begins the bondage of the children of Egypt, when

a king arose who knew not Joseph.

Aaron born, three years before his brother Moses.

Gen. 1.

Exod. vi.
16-20.
Exod. i. 8

vii. 7.

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CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX.

1—3.

Pharoah, in order to put a stop to the Hebrew population, Exod. ii.
issues a decree, that all the male children of the Israelites
1571 shall be drowned in the Nile; in consequence of which, Mo-
ses is concealed in an ark of bulrushes, among the flags that
grew on the banks of that river; and Providence so ordered
events, that Pharoah's daughter going to the spot to bathe,
finds the child, which being very beautiful, she adopts for
her own, and has him, as such, educated in all the learning
of the Egyptians.

1531

1491

1491

Moses, at forty years of age, slays an Egyptian who com-
mitted an assault upon a Hebrew. In consequence of which,
he is obliged to flee into the land of Midian, where he mar-
ries a daughter of Jethro, a priest of that country, and
abides there forty years.

At about eighty years old, the Lord appears to Moses,
while tending Jethro's sheep, and sends him and his brother
Aaron back to Egypt, to deliver Israel, by a train of the
most splendid miracles.

11.

Exod.

1, 4.

xi.

Moses and Aaron having delivered the message received Exod.
from the God of Israel, confirm it before Pharoah by va-
rious miracles, which are opposed by the sorceries of his
magicians. At length, by ten heavy plagues upon the
Egyptians, Pharoah and his people are at last compelled to
consent to their departure, and even urge them to depart.

§ IV. FROM THE EXODUS, OR DEPARTURE OUT OF
EGYPT, TO THE DEATH OF MOSES.

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Upon the 14th of the first month (answering to the 4th of Exod
our May), the Passover is instituted; and on the night fol-
lowing, the first-born being slain in all the families of the
Egyptians, Pharoah and his people arise hastily in the night,
and drive them out of the land, even 600,000 men, beside
children, with all their flocks and herds, and other property,
and a mixed multitude of followers, who voluntarily accom-
pany them.
Then by slow marches, conducted by a mi-
raculous pillar of fire and of cloud, they arrive at the border
of the Red Sea.

29-51

Pharoah, recovering from his panic, and repenting of Exod. x.
having consented to their departure, follows them with all
his host, and comes up with them; but the God of Israel,
by throwing between them and Pharoah his dense pillar of
cloud, hides them effectually from him, while the light and
fire on the other side of the cloud direct their way. Coming
to the borders of the sea, Moses, by his rod, divides for
them a way by which they pass safely through the water;
but no sooner are Israel arrived on the other side, than,
by the same means, the sea is brought back upon Pharoah,
and drowns both him and all his hosts; upon which Israel Ex6
sing an ode of praise and triumph, composed by Moses on
this occasion.

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CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX.

It was but a month from this time (answering to our Exod. xvi.
June 4), that the Israelites came to the wilderness of Sin, and

1491 there murmured against God and their leaders, for want of
food. In the eventide, God sends them quails (a kind of
winged fowl), and the next morning rains upon them manna
from the clouds-and thus were they miraculously supplied
with food for forty years.

490

1-7.

At Rephidim, which seems to have been their next en- Exod. xvii.
campment, Israel murmur again for want of water; and
Moses, by divine direction, gives them water from the rock.
Immediately after this, the Amalekites fall upon the rear
of the camp, but are discomfited by Joshua, whilst Moses
holds up his hands to God in prayer for them.

8-16.

The moral law of the Ten Commandments delivered from Exod. xx.
Mount Sinai, with great and awful solemnity.

to xxiv.

Various other laws, ritual and political, are delivered by Exod. xxi.
the hand of Moses, in the most solemn manner, to which
the people unanimously promise their obedience, and ratify
their promises by burnt-offerings and peace-offerings.

Moses and the elders admitted into the divine presence,
on the top of Sinai, where the former continues forty days
without food, receiving laws and regulations for their public
worship.

In the six following chapters, Moses receives directions
for building and furnishing the tabernacle, during which
time the people of Israel, supposing that they had lost Mo-
ses, make themselves a molten calf [perhaps taken from the
form of the cherubim], as a medium of their worship.

God informs Moses of this act of rebellion and idolatry,
and threatens to destroy them; but Moses pleads earnestly
on their behalf, and is sent hastily down, with the tables
of stone in his hands as inscribed by God himself, to put
an end to these transactions.

Moses finding them engaged in keeping a festival to their
idol, and that his brother Aaron had united in the idolatry,
in a fit of grief and anger casts them from his hands, and
breaks them at the foot of the mountain; for which the Jews
keep a solemn fast to the present day.

Moses, having defaced and burnt the idol, orders military
execution on the idolaters, as guilty of a capital offence, and
3000 of them fall sacrifices to their crime.

After this, God commands Moses to prepare other tables
of stone, and to bring them into the mount to be inscribed.
Moses does so, and has a fresh display of the divine glory,
and God's laws and covenant are renewed.

In the first six months of this year, the Tabernacle and
its furniture are completed. The Tabernacle is then set up
and anointed; also Aaron and his sons are consecrated for
the priesthood.

1-8.

9-18.

Exod. xxv.

to xxxi.

Exod.xxxii.

1-6.

7-14.

15-19.

20-35.

Exodus

xxxiv.

Exod. xl.

Levit. x.

1-5.

Nadab and Abihu are struck dead by fire from heaven,
for offering incense with strange fire, contrary to the law.
The princes of the tribes present their offerings towards | Num. vii.

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