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Genesis

asked 4 years ago

How can we explain that from Adam to Abraham, people lived for hundreds of years?


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מיכי Staff answered 4 years ago
I don’t know. And in general, I’m not sure it really was as described. Not everything that appears there is a literal factual description. There are surprising coincidences and parallels between dozens of generations (chapter 4 and chapter 5), which perhaps suggests that this is not an ordinary factual description.

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משה replied 4 years ago

It is possible that the reference was to distinct tribes that identified themselves with the name of the tribal leader. After 100+ years, the man from whom another identified tribe split was born.

הפוסק האחרון replied 4 years ago

In the same way that you can explain that a snake speaks human language.

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