Genesis tells us that Adam lived 930 years, but it never gives Eve’s age, either when she was made or when she died. When the two of them lived depends on how we read the genealogies. By Archbishop James Ussher’s chronology of 1650, which is one reading among several, Adam was created in 4004 BC and would be about 6,030 years old today. Genesis counts Adam’s years three ways and then closes his life in three words, “and he died”…

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