How many years was it from Adam to the flood?

The sum of the years of the First Age. From Adam unto Noah's flood are years 1656.
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What year was the flood?

In this way, Bishop Ussher computed that the earth had been created in 4004 BC and that the flood occurred in 2350 BC which was henceforth accepted as the "traditional" biblical date,( though there is rival literal interpretation similarly inspired, setting the date at 2459 BC).
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How many years ago was Adam and Eve created?

Adam and Eve were not created until the 7th Day, approximately 9,700 years ago during the early Mesolithic. In addition, Adam was created, then placed in a botanical garden specifically “to dress it and to keep it”, and the Garden only (Genesis 2:15).
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Did Noah and Adam live at the same time?

Noah lived at the same time as all of these patriarchs except Adam, Seth and Enoch. Adam died 126 years before Noah was born; Seth died just 14 years before Noah. And Noah's great-grandfather, Enoch, was translated about four years before Noah's birth.
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How long did Adam and Eve live for?

According to Jewish tradition, Adam and Eve had 56 children. This was possible, in part, because Adam lived to be 930 years old. Some scholars believe that the length of the life spans of the people of this time was due to a vapor canopy in the atmosphere.
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How long was a year in the Old Testament?

In ancient times, twelve thirty-day months were used making a total of 360 days for the year. Abraham, used the 360-day year, which was known in Ur. The Genesis account of the flood in the days of Noah illustrated this 360-day year by recording the 150-day interval till the waters abated from the earth.
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How many years was between Adam and Noah?

The time from Adam to Noah, at the time of the flood, is 1,656 years. Add subsequent genealogies found in Genesis chapters 10 and 11 and then the time from Jesus to the present equals approximately 6,000 years.
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How many years has it been since creation?

Concerning the age of the Earth, the Bible's genealogical records combined with the Genesis 1 account of creation are used to estimate an age for the Earth and universe of about 6000 years, with a bit of uncertainty on the completeness of the genealogical records, allowing for a few thousand years more.
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How many generations were there from Adam to Jesus?

The Nestle-Aland critical edition, considered the best authority by most modern scholars, accepts the variant "son of Aminadab, son of Admin, son of Arni", counting the 76 generations from Adam rather than God.
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How long did the flood last?

After 150 days, "God remembered Noah ... and the waters subsided" until the Ark rested on the mountains of Ararat, and on the 27th day of the second month of Noah's six hundred and first year the earth was dry.
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How long ago did Noah live?

He is on a marine archeological mission that might support the story of Noah. He said some 12,000 years ago, much of the world was covered in ice.
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How many generations are in 3000 years?

Ralph and Coop calculated that these shared segments showed ancestors stretching back some 3,000 years, or 100 generations.
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How many years makes a generation in the Bible?

Reasons for the summary

Since generations were commonly placed at 35 years, this means exactly 14 generations.
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How are Noah and Adam related?

Noah appears in Genesis 5:29 as the son of Lamech and ninth in descent from Adam. In the story of the Deluge (Genesis 6:11–9:19), he is represented as the patriarch who, because of his blameless piety, was chosen by God to perpetuate the human race after his wicked contemporaries had perished in the Flood.
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How old is Jesus now?

The current year of the birth of Jesus is 2021 AD. It means that on this Christmas, Jesus will be two thousand and twenty-one years old.
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How far back does the Bible date?

So the oldest Biblical text we found is about 2700 years old. Of course, this is just what we've been able to locate and date. The first Biblical stories were passed down orally and only written down later by various authors. Most Biblical scholars believe the Book of Genesis was the first book to be written down.
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What does the H stand for in Jesus name?

In partially Latinised form, the IHC component is rendered JHC or JHS. This is the origin of the interjection, which seems to imagine that H is Jesus' middle initial, and Christ his surname, rather than his title (ho khristos: the anointed).
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Why did Adam and Eve live so long?

Among the many possible purposes for the prolonged life-span of the ancient patriarchs was the establishment of truth through the Lord's divine law of witnesses.
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What language did Adam and Eve speak?

The Adamic language, according to Jewish tradition (as recorded in the midrashim) and some Christians, is the language spoken by Adam (and possibly Eve) in the Garden of Eden.
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Does the Garden of Eden still exist?

Does the Garden of Eden still exist? If the Garden of Eden still exists, no one knows where. The Bible says a river ran from Eden and separated into four rivers: Pishon, Gihon, Tigris, and Euphrates.
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How many wives does Adam have?

For Adam was the one husband of Eve, and Eve his one wife, one woman, one rib." The 3rd century Eusebius of Caesarea wrote the lost work "On the Numerous Progeny of the Ancients".
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