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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

OF SUCH

REMARKABLE PARTICULARS

AS ARE CONTAINED IN

THE BOOK OF GENESIS;

And the Times whereof are either in the said Book expressly mentioned, or elfe are plainly deducible from what is

mentioned therein.

OF

THE FOLLOWING TABLE.

IT

being a method long fince received among us Chriftians, to reckon our years from the nativity or birth of CHRIST, and confequently the number of years from the birth of Chrift, according to the common computation, being well known among us; hence nothing can give us a clearer notion of the time, wherein happened the occurrences related in the hiftory of the Old Teftament, than acquainting us, how many years before the birth of Chrift the fame happened. For this reafon, to the years of the world fet down in the following table, I have adjoined also the number of years before Chrift, refpectively answering thereunto.

By this means may be eafily known, how many years ago, even from this present time, any particular mentioned in the Table fell out, namely, by adding the year before Chrift, fet down by the fide of the faid particular in the Table, to the present year of Christ.

For instance, the creation is reckoned 3949 years 3949 1710 before Chrift; therefore 3949 added to 1710 fhews that the world was created 5659 years ago, from

5659 this present time.

In reckoning the first year of the world, or the creation, to be three thousand nine hundred forty-nine years, before the common year of Chrift's nativity; I follow the opinion

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moft generally received, which makes the common epoch of Christ to fall in with A. M. 3950. In a late edition of our English Bible, I find the creation computed to be four thousand and four years, before the common epoch of Chrift, fo that the difference is about fifty years.

As A. D. or A. C. does in fhort denote the year of our Lord, or of Chrift; so A. M. denotes the year of the world, or from the Creation.

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