CODE 490: Sabbaticals Before the Exodus - by Floyd R. Cox - Updated 4-14-2015 |
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If
you Google for “sabbaticals and jubilees” you receive 5,460 hits, and the
vast majority of them begin with Joshua’s conquest in about 1407 BC, 40 years
after “the early exodus date in 1447 BC” or begin with the exodus in about
1255 BC, “the late exodus” in the time of Rameses II). Many
have been influenced by the movie, Exodus, staring Charlton Heston as
Moses and Yul Brynner as the Pharaoh Rameses II. Too
bad there is not some kind of clearing house to select the most logical view.
Perhaps there should be one original version, which can be restored. |
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None
seem to realize, in the Book of Jubilees, Adam died in his 931st
year, in the 19th jubilee year, and that Shem (Noah’s son) was age
98 (two jubilees) at the flood. Noah
died 350 years after the flood (7 x 50 = 350). These are clues that
sabbaticals should continue to be counted before and after the flood and
implies that the time before the flood was somehow divided into sabbaticals. Adding 52 years
So there
is evidence that the cycles should actually continue after Noah’s flood
during a sabbatical. Perhaps there were 1708 years (7 x 244) (427 x 4) (28 x
61) from Adam to the flood, which are 52 years more than the 1656
years usually accepted., which is why TABLE 1 begins with a sabbatical 1708
years after Adam instead of 1656 years as illustrated here in TABLE 4: http://code251.com/code427.pdf From
the Flood to the Exodus 854 Years (427 x 2 or 61 sabbaticals) TABLE
1 shows that, 427 years (7 x 61) after the flood, Abraham was age 75
(when his father died and when he first entered Canaan). It shows that his 75th
year was also 427 years (7 x 61) before the exodus. This would mean
that both Abraham’s 75th year and the exodus were both in
sabbatical years, that is, if the flood ended in 1708 years with a
sabbatical. This is likely the original version (427 + 427 = 854) as
explained at http://code251.com/code427.pdf Moreover,
Archbishop James Ussher’s version confirms the 427 years (61 sabbaticals)
from the flood to Abraham’s age 75 (when he was called), but he has 430
instead of 427 years from Abraham’s age 75 to the exodus. He made the usual
mistake that Abraham was first called when he dwelled in Ur, before he
dwelled in Haran, before his father died as explained in Acts 7:2. 427 years
would place the exodus in a sabbatical year as in TABLE 1. Nevertheless,
Ussher says there were 430 years from Abraham’s calling, when he was 75,
until the exodus. This discrepancy would be cleared up if Abraham were called
the first time, when he still dwelled in Ur, before he was 75, before his
father died. Subtracting 52 Years
Moreover,
I Kings 6:1 says the temple was founded at the beginning of the 480th
year after the exodus, that is, after 479 years. This would be 427 years,
that is, 61 sabbaticals, if 52 years were subtracted from the 479 years,
and it would mean that Solomon’s temple was founded in 968 BC, in a
sabbatical year, 427 times 7 years after Adam became human in 3957 BC (3957 –
968 = 2989 years). This would place the exodus in 1395 BC (968 + 427 = 1395),
when Egypt’s wealth began to fail. From Joshua’s Conquest to the Temple 439 years?If
the 52 years are not removed, the rabbinical version supports I kings 6:1 in
having 300 years from Joshua’s entry into Canaan to the time of Jephthah
(Judges 11:26), and there would be another 139 more years from Jephthah to
the temple because there were 439 years between Joshua’s conquest and the
temple, and 479 years from the exodus to the temple (as in I Kings 6:1) (300
+ 139 = 439) (479 – 40 = 439). However, as in Ussher’s Annals, the
sabbaticals were two years before and five years after Joshua’s conquest and
would be repeated in 441 years, not 339 years. This would place a jubilee in
968 BC, 441 years after the jubilee occurring two years before Joshua’s
conquest (49 x 9 = 441) (1409 BC – 441 = 968 BC). Here again the temple was
founded in a jubilee year, the last jubilee in the first 3000 years, 2989
years after Adam became human.
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NOTE:
1656 yrs (Adam to flood) + 854 yrs (flood to exodus) = 2510 yrs. The
Samaritan version from Adam to the exodus is one Venus cycle (243 years)
longer, 2753 yrs., and 2793 years to Joshua’s conquest. “The late exodus” in 1255
BC is 427 years after an exodus in 1683 BC (as in the Samaritan version).
If Joshua’s conquest were in 1643, it was 196 years (4 jubilees)
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TABLE 2. The Missing 166 Years of the
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For more details: http://code251.com/code166.pdf
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4202 |
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3957 BC
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Background info for understanding TABLE 3: This
chart illustrates the relationship between three dates for creation,
that is, the Samaritan (4202 BC), the Masoretic (3957 BC) and the Rabbinic
(3761 BC) views. Note
that the proposed Samaritan date of creation (4202 BC) is five jubilees
before the proposed Masoretic date (3957 BC), and 3957 is four jubilees
before the rabbinic date of creation in (3761 BC). What is more, the proposed
Samaritan date (4202) is 2793 years (57 jubilees) before the spring
sabbatical and fall jubilee in 1409 BC (two years before Joshua’s conquest
in 1407 BC. 1409 is 441 years (9 jubilees) before the temple (968 BC).
Archbishop Ussher endorsed this view when he said the first sabbatical was
counted from after the 5th year after Joshua crossed the
Jordan, after Caleb was 85 (Annals p 53) (Josh 14:10). He said
the first jubilee was the 54th year (49+5). The second jubilee was
the 103rd year (98 + 5). The third jubilee was the 152nd
year (147 + 5). However, the cycle should have been 7 years earlier, two
years before Joshua crossed the Jordan, when counting from creation.
Ussher missed this point. Moreover,
the Samaritan date of creation (4202 BC) would be 245 + 196 = 441 years (9
jubilees) before the rabbinic date of creation (3761 BC). One
source of confusion stems from the Samaritan belief that sabbaticals and
jubilees began with Joshua crossing the Jordan, two years after a jubilee
counted from creation. In
calculating the year in which sabbaticals began, the book of Jubilees,
chapter 15, says, “…the cloud was lifted up on the first (day) of the first
month, of the first year of the first period of seven years of the Jubil
(Jubilee) even from the beginning of the entering in of the children of
Israel…” Allegedly,
sabbaticals began forty years after the exodus. Thus, the temple was
founded 439 years after Joshua crossed the Jordan, that is, 479 years
after the exodus (I Kings 6:1). Therefore, since 439 years are not evenly
divisible by 7, the temple would not be founded in a sabbatical or jubilee
year. The fall of the 441st year would be a jubilee. 439 years before the temple, Joshua crossed the Jordan to conquer the land, in the first month,
in the spring, when the manna stopped, and the harvesting cycles began. Chapter
15 of the Samaritan Book of Joshua says, “The children of Israel did as the king commanded
them. And the cloud (which followed the Israelites 40 years) was lifted up, on
the first (day) of the first month,
of the first year of the first period of seven years of the Jubil
(Jubilee) even from the beginning of the entering in of the children
of Israil within the boundaries of the assigned lands.” http://thesamaritanupdate.com/ Confusion has also evolved from a lack of research on sabbatical and jubilee cycles a lack of insight gained from my recent discovery of the 251, 427, 49 and 166-year patterns. From the exodus to the temple, time is usually understood as being about 251 years, 479 years or 590 years depending on whether or not we include the 111 years of oppression, 339 years of judges or 450 years for both (as in Acts 13:20). |
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Note:
A sabbatical in 422-21 is 490 years before a sabbatical in 69-70 AD and is 35
years after a jubilee in Background
info for understanding TABLE 4: The rabbinic view has 17
jubilees (850 years) from the year Joshua crossed the Jordan in 1272 BC until
the temple was burned allegedly in 422 BC, 166 years after it had actually burned
after 588 BC. However, the jubilee cycle allegedly began in 1258 BC, 14 years
after Joshua’s conquest, and the jubilee allegedly repeated 14 years after
the temple burned in 422 BC (that is, in 408 BC). 490 years later, in 69-70
AD, the temple burned again, and a jubilee again occurred 14 years later, in
83 AD and in 132 AD during the Bar Kochba Revolt against Rome. Therefore, the
jubilees repeated every 50 years in each century years, such as in BC 458 and
BC 408 but continued every 49 years after 422 BC. It continues thereafter in
each century year AD 34 (BC 408 to AD 34 = 441 years) and repeats in
AD 83 (34 + 49 = 83) and repeats in 132 AD (83 + 49 = 132). In the Masoretic view, there
are no 50-year jubilees. Beginning in
3957 BC, they repeat in 1409 BC, 968 BC (when the first temple was founded),
429 BC, 331 and 37 BC. Last but not least, the
Samaritan text has 2794 years to the death of Moses perhaps in 1408 BC Careful study of tables 3 and
4 should help other researchers conclude that 3957 BC, in the Masoreh text
and King James version, is the original date of creation, which was altered
by the other two by simply adding 5 jubilees to or by subtracting 4 jubilees
from 3957 BC. There seems to be sufficient evidence that much effort has applied to corrupt the simple, original 49-year pattern since the time of Adam in 3957 BC by injecting a new beginning in the time of Joshua in 1407 BC. Nevertheless, 1407 BC does align with known jubilees in 966, 868, 721, 623 and 574 BC. More research is needed. Summary
To
summarize, here is what we can observe: 1. In
the Hebrew Masoreh text, Noah’s flood is in the year 1656 A.M. (After Man)
(1056+600=1656). In
the Hebrew Samaritan text, Noah dies in the 1657th year A.M. (707
+ 600 + 350 = 1657 years). In
the Greek LXX text, Noah is born in the year 1656, the flood is in 2256, and
he dies in the year 2606 (1656 + 600 + 350 = 2606 years). Noah’s
birth is in 1056 A.M. in one version, which is 251 years before the flood in
1307 A.M. in another version. These three versions differ by 950 years (600
years to the flood + 350 years after the flood to Noah’s death). 950 years
are equal to 50 19-year cycles or 19 50-year jubilees. 2.
The fall of Babel and dispersion of the tribes were 427 x 4 (1708 years)
after Adam in one version and 251 x 7 (1757 years) in another version. These
versions differ exactly 49 years. 3.
There are 427 x 7 years from Adam to the temple (3957 BC – 968 BC = 2989
years). 4.
After Babel, Abraham’s calling at age 75 was 427 years after the flood and
427 years before the exodus (which Ussher claimed was 430 years). Abraham’s
first calling in Ur was 430 years before the exodus as in Exodus 12:41 and
Acts 7:2. 5.
After the exodus, Joshua crossed the Jordan in 1272 BC in one version and in
1408 BC in another version (1408 – 1272 = 136 years). 6. There are 1656 years to the flood (1708 – 52) and 479 years from the exodus to the temple (427 + 52) and there are 502 (251 x 2) from the fall of Babylon in 539 BC to when Herod captured Jerusalem in 37 BC during a sabbatical year. This brings us down to the time of Herod (the dragon) and Caesar (the beast) of Revelation. These tried to devour a “Man-child” after he was born in Bethlehem. |
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