Everything dates from the creation of Adam. Beyond him all is Wrapped in dark and impenetrable mystery. In order to determine the Length of time from Adam's creation to the flood we have only to add The ages of the antediluvian patriarchs--Adam, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah--at the births of Their first sons, and add to this the age of Shem at the flood, and we Find that it was 1656 years (Genesis 5:3-32; Genesis 7:6).

Chapter v
... there are ample indications of a more salubrious climate in the antediluvian days. ...
The emphasis lies on the chronology and on setting forth the prominent links ...
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The Pentateuch.
... Adam. (C.) The chronology of the book of Genesis involves, as is well known,
some difficult questions. ... manner. (1.) Antediluvian Genealogy. ...
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Chapter viii
... The chronology of the Flood is complete for all practical purposes ... of time are in
each case seven days suggests, on the one hand, that in antediluvian days time ...
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Book 20 Footnotes
... strata under ground, till the diggers came to the antediluvian waters, with ... five
hundred years before the Christian era, according to our exactest chronology. ...
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The City of God. Index of Subjects.
... etc. Chronology, the enormously long, of heathen writers, [326]232,
[327]233; the discrepancy in that of the Hebrew and other MSS. ...
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Antediluvian

Antediluvian Chronology

Antediluvian Patriarchs