Fun Bible Facts

[Godscreated]

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52 children over a span of 110 to 900 years PER GENERATION with multiple partners is not an unreasonable number. Tell me you could not do this if given a nearly 1000 years with no internet, girly mags or any "other outlets" for yourself. Infact if you truly think about it That number maybe low.

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I guess you keep missing the fact that the Bible says it's impossible without a miracle from our Lord to have a child after the age of 70 or so. I don't know how it's not sinking in, given that I've twice cited the verses in Genesis in question.

Also, your figure of living 900 years was only for the generations prior to the flood. After the flood, people only lived to be around 180 years.

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Prior to the flood:

Seth: 912 Years (Gen 5:8)
Enos: 905 Years (Gen 5:11)
Cainan: 910 Years (Gen 5:14)
Mahalaleel: 895 Years (Gen 5:17)
Jered: 962 Years (Gen 5:20)
Methuselah: 969 Years (Gen 5:27)
Lemech: 777 Years (5:31)
Noah: 950 Years (9:29)

After the flood:

Abraham: 175 Years (Gen 25:7)
Ishmael: 137 Years (Gen 25:17)
Isaac: 180 Years (Gen 35:28)
Jacob: 147 Years (Gen 47:28)

So after the flood, people only lived a short 150-180 years. Still, fertility was limited such that a 90 year old woman giving birth was laughable:

Gen 18:13 And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?

So living to be 180 doesn't mean anything in terms of population growth if fertility is still limited. Hence, the Jewish population explosion was a miracle (as Sarah's child that she bore at such an old age was a miracle).

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You're the one who brought up hundreds of years not Drich. the questions Drich first ask are valid and you slipped around them, why? The Israelites probably live shorter lives than 100 years and the average family had around 10 children per wife if there was more than one wife, this was not a common practice for the nation of Israel at this point in time. The reason there were so many people was due to the fact that they were in Egypt for 400 years, this would be about 10 generations in a simple math situation. However you must take into account, at the age of 14-16 couples were married and started to have children, after the first 14 years or so the next generation would be having children and a new generation would start every year after that for some 350 years. Start doing the math and you will find that there where a great number in the nation of Israel after 400 years. In no way were there just four generations.