Numbers in Genesis 5 (and 11?) non-random?

Some Pretend the Ages of Patriarchs are Symbolic · Numbers in Genesis 5 (and 11?) non-random?

The real evidence, and it still stands, is that all thirty numbers end in only 0, 2, 5, 7, or 9*

Let's look:

Adam 130 800 930
Seth 105 807 912
Enos 90 815 905
Cainan 70 840 910
Malaleel 65 830 895
Jared 162 800 962
Henoch 65 300 365
Mathusela 187 782 969
Lamech 182 595 777
Noe 500 450 950

How many have any ending number other than 5 or 0?

Seth 105 807 912
Jared 162 800 962
Mathusela 187 782 969
Lamech 182 595 777

How many of these have both the first another ending number?

Mathusela 187 782 969

So, in six cases, the final number of the total is 0 or 5 because both the begat and the after numbers are ending in 0 or 5.

In one case, the total is other because the begat number is other, and the after number ends in 0:

Jared 162 800 962

In two cases it is other because one of the primary numbers is other and the other in 5:

Seth 105 807 912
Lamech 182 595 777

In one case only, both the primary numbers are other and so is the total:

Mathusela 187 782 969

How does this look? Lets take out the totals and look at 0/5 as "O" and other as "X":

Adam OO
Seth OX
Enos OO
Cainan OO
Malaleel OO
Jared XO
Henoch OO
Mathusela XX
Lamech XO
Noe OO

The X are, Seth, one, Jared, one more, two, Mathusela, two more, four, Lamech, one more, five.

The obvious possibility for this Masoretic text is: begat age and after years are both counted in "five year" units, while in five cases the precise years were recorded. The total is simply the adding up of them. Whether this is because of slop in the original recording or because of simplifications up to the time when Moses wrote it is moot.

The other possibility, less obvious, is, as earlier mentioned, from Adam to Moses, totals add up to 12 600 years. Because, God wanted the time span from Genesis 3 to Moses (who wrote it down as part of one book) to be as obvious as that from Antichrist beginning world wide persecution up to Antichrist ending it (that being 1260 days, a bit less than 3 1/2 solar years, 1278.375 days being 18 days more than 1260).

Again, for both possibilities, I only know of the Masoretic, I have not yet checked what it brings to a LXX or LXX without the second Cainan.

Arpachsad 438 = Masoretic.

And Arphaxad lived a hundred and thirty-five years, and begot Cainan. And Arphaxad lived after he had begotten Cainan, four hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.

135 + 400 = 535, not 438. The totals will be different for some LXX ages in chapter 11.

Hans Georg Lundahl
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18.VII.2026

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PS, next day.

It so happens, the probability of rounding is a pretty high one so, five being visibly too precise to be rounded to nearest 0 or 5, in twenty, is not a big deal, probability-wise.

So, what about the precise numbers, a two or a seven?

These are, together, two possibilities, not out of ten, but out of eight. Any precise number that's either ending in 0 or 5 just melts in with rounded ones.

2 in 8 equals 1 in 4, and this happens at 5 places, so, 1 in 4 raised to the power of 5. This is 1 in 1024. Not in billions. Significant, but not overwhelmingly improbable./HGL

* From description of a video which I commented on here: Another Failed Attempt at Denying Genesis 5 and 11's Obvious Chronological Implications