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NOTABLE CHANGES FOR LIFE ON EARTH AFTER THE FLOOD 1026

". . . and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth . . ."

Before the Flood After the Flood Average life span: 821 years Average life span: 275.1 years see sheet 1023 see sheet 1023 All were vegetarians Meat-eating begins Gen. 1:29-30 Gen. 9:3 No fear exists between man and beasts Fear of man is placed upon animals Gen. 2:19 Gen. 9:2 Earth is watered The physics of heaven and earth are by a mist rising from the ground changed; rain and rainbows form Gen. 2:6 Gen. 7:12; 9:13 There is one continent Pangaea is broken up Gen. 1:9 There are no seasons mentioned Seasons mentioned Gen. 8:22 Punishment of crimes in God's hands Punishment of crimes is given to men Gen. 4:10-12 Gen. 9:5-6, 24-25 1026 Page Two THE GENERATIONS

The average life span for The average life span for ten generations born before the ten generations born the flood was 821 years immediately after the flood ( excluded). was 275.1 years.

Year Event Year Event

0...... Created 1659.....Arphaxad born 130...... born 1694.....Salah born 235...... born 1724..... born 325...... born 1758..... born1 395...... Mahalaleel born 1788..... born 460...... born 1820..... born 622...... Enoch born 1850.....Nahor born 687...... born 1879..... born 874...... born 1949.....Abram born2 Nahor 930...... Adam dies (age 930) and Haran follow. 987...... Enoch translated (age 365) 1997.....Peleg dies (239) 1998.....Nahor dies (148) 1042.....Seth dies (age 912) 2006..... dies (950) 1056.....Noah born 2027.....Reu dies (239) 1140.....Enos dies (age 905) 2049..... born 1235.....Cainan dies (age 910) 2050.....Serug dies (230) 1290.....Mahalaleel dies (age 895) 2084.....Terah dies (205) 1422.....Jared dies (age 962) 2097.....Arphaxad dies (438) 1556..... born. and 2109..... and Esau born. follow. (Shem born in 1559) 2124..... dies (175) 1651.....Lamech dies (age 777) 2127.....Salah dies (age 433) 1656.....Methuselah dies (age 969) 2159.....Shem dies (age 600) 1656.....The Flood 2188.....Eber dies (age 464) 1657.....The flood is over. 2229.....Isaac dies (age 180)

1 At some point in Peleg's life (a.c. 1758-1997), the "confusion of tongues" took place.

2 This assumes Abram to be Terah's first-born (but consider Acts 7:2-3!). 1026 Page Three

Isaac was forty when Jacob and Esau were born. = 2269 Jacob 130 when he went into Egypt = 2399 was about 39 when Jacob came to Egypt = 2399 The families of Israel came into Egypt = 2399

Joseph was born in the year 2360 Jacob lived 147 years = 2416 Joseph lived 110 years = 2470

In Egypt 430 years = 2829 Add a hundred years for Joseph to die and things to change = 2929

41 years in the wilderness = 2970 5 years conquering the land of = 2975

Add 25 years (approx.) for Joshua to die = 3000