{"id":3877,"date":"2024-05-25T07:37:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T07:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/adam-to-jesus-years\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T13:09:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T13:09:59","slug":"adam-to-jesus-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/nl\/learn\/adam-to-jesus-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoeveel jaar zit er tussen Adam en Jezus? Ongeveer 4.000 of 5.500, en de Bijbel geeft geen totaal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>The Bible never gives the total. Adding up the ages in its genealogies gives about 4,000 years from Adam to Jesus using the Hebrew text, and about 5,500 using the Greek Septuagint: a gap of roughly fifteen centuries. Anyone offering a confident single figure is choosing a text and not saying so. The famous number James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, published a chronology in 1650 that put creation at the evening before 23 October 4004 BC. He was a serious\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall paywp-paywall\" data-required-level=\"25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cppw-lock-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<h2>Continue reading with a subscription<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-button wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/nl\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/nl\/login\/\">Already a subscriber? Sign in<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"cppw-paywall__microcopy\">Enjoy unlimited access, cancel anytime.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 4,000 years by the Hebrew text and 5,500 by the Septuagint; the Bible gives no total. Where 4004 BC comes from, and how many generations Luke lists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"series":[80],"class_list":["post-3877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible-study","series-adam-and-eve"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2823,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/nl\/learn\/adam-eve-lifespans\/","url_meta":{"origin":3877,"position":0},"title":"How Old Were Adam and Eve? 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