Bible Chronology:

Basis Patterns:

FROM ABRAHAM TO THE CONQUEST

The births and deaths of the patriarchs, along with their major sojourns, are related to each other since the Promised Land is bound up with the promised seed (Gen 15). The key numbers of this period (and their multiples), are 40, 100 (as a "generation"), and 430. (These, along with '390' and '190' (LXX), are taken from Ezk 4:4-6, and symbolize a period of trial with hope of deliverance.) All examples are in condensed form.

• There are, forwards and backwards, 215 + 215 + 215-yr segments (when including Abram's birth and death in proximity to Moses birth). (215 x 2 = 430 of Ezk, & 215 x 3 x 2 = 1,290 of Dan. 12:11.)
  
• Besides 430 at either end of the span from Abram to the exodus, there are 390 at either end too.
  
• There are also 160 yrs (in type, "4th generation") at either end of the this 800 yrs from Abraham's birth unto the Canaan entry (MT w LXX).
  
• As the Bible segments Moses life into two periods of 40 yrs at the exodus (when he was 80 yrs old), even so, the above 800 yrs is segmented as 400 + 400 at Joseph's death.
  
• As Scripture segments Moses' full 120-yr life into 3 x 40-yr periods, even so numerically here, forwards and backwards, on the X-10 level (i.e., 1,200). (The extra '400' yrs, uses '480' of 1Kgs 6:1 (w 480 x 2 more to Christ's birth), or, full span back to flood ('480,' or, '482'), hence joining '120' of Gen 6:3, w 480 more to Noah's birth! (I.e., '480' = 120 x 4, or 12 gen. of 40 yrs, as 1,200 is of 100 yrs, e.g., "12 tribes of Israel.")
  
• The birth or death of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (+2 yrs), Joseph (+1 yr), and Moses, are divided into 120-yr cycles, ---starting at (LXX & MT) exodus & entry. See 'ELS' at 'burning bush'. Joseph's death is centered at 360 + 360 yrs. ('360' is a biblical yr).
  
• The 'ELS' w. 'mirror' corrects above difference of "+1" & "+2 yrs,". (This ELS is 120 x 3, plus, 120 x 3 letters, w an adjacent 120 x 3 letters ---a total span of 361 + 360 letters.) On a X-10 level, (see '120' and '1,200' yrs), dates crisscross 'in mirror,' at + 3,610 yrs. {I.e., 2166 BC (Abram's birth), + 361 yrs = 1805 BC (Joseph's death), + 3,610 yrs = AD 1806, w + and – 360 yrs again, etc.}
  
• As there are 390 yrs from the entry into Egypt unto Moses attempted deliverance of Israel (Acts 7:23-30), so there are 3,900 unto Isaac's birth, 'in the mirror.'
  
• Also, '4000', except back to Abram's birth. (I.e., X-10 of "in a strange land …400 yrs.")
  
• As there are 190 yrs (LXX, Ezk 4) from the birth of Isaac unto the entry into Egypt, (and 4 times that many from Abram's birth unto the Canaan entry), so there are1,900 yrs unto 166 BC (origin of Hanukah), and another 1,900 unto the mirror of Abraham's death.
  
• There are 430 x 7 yrs from Moses' birth back unto his own birth, and 390 x 7 from his death back to his own death, 'in the mirror.' Similarly, there are 400 x 7 from end of conquest, ---aut, 1400 BC, Josh. 14, unto itself). The 'X-10' roughly repeats the same w Abraham. (Multiples of 7 & 10, & by default, '3,' the difference of 7 & 10, signify completion, Dan. 9:20-27.)
  
• This period interacts w all other dates outside itself. E.g., Ezekiel must lay on his side 390 + 40 dys, "a dy for a yr," (= 430 yrs) ---symbolic of siege and exile to Babylon in 586 BC.
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