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religion; as it came to its full form and oeconomy dispensation or divine order under Moses after its patriarchal vanguard.

4. Now, I could certainly remain with such a division here for these reasons: however, because I am not bound to it, I will draw the Mosaic period into the fourth, especially in view of the passage in 1 Kings 6:1 where it says: In the four hundred and eightieth year after the departure of the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's kingdom over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, the house of the LORD was built. For in these words, a very remarkable terminus a quo & ad quem starting and ending point is made for this period.

5. Since the materials accumulate from the fourth period onward, so that the further one goes, the more extensive the histories become; I have, to assist the memory, divided them into special sections, or shorter periods of time, as the significance of the starting and ending points required. And I retain this division in the following periods all the more appropriately as the supply of material becomes richer therein.

6. Because in the 5th and 6th periods, Jewish history enters into a great connection with the histories of the large foreign world empires, the Assyrian and Chaldean, the Persian, Greek, and Roman, historical parallelism had to be touched upon in its most important parts. On the other hand, in the preceding periods, I have not entered into the parallel history of other nations, which is full of uncertainty due to the lack of sufficient records.

7. In chronology, and also in the synchronismo simultaneous timeline of the ancient monarchies, I have followed the famous Jacobo Usserio James Ussher in his Annalibus Annals, as most modern interpreters and historians do; however, in a few points, I have departed from him, not without cause.

The First Period.

From the

Creation of the World until the Great Flood /

around the year of the world 1657.

AM	Event Description	AM	Event Description
1	Time began with the creation of the world, when it was autumn in the East: from which the year began for the Patriarchs.	687	Methuselah is born to Enoch when he was 65 years old. v. 27.
	Cain is born, and after him Abel, but only in the second year, unless they were twins. Gen. 3:1. and following.	874	Lamech is born to Methuselah when he was 187 years old. v. 25.
	From this time on, more children of both sexes were always born to the first parents: who by divine dispensation later married one another.	930	Adam dies at age 930, after the human race had spread into many thousands through the lines of Seth and Cain and resulting new lines and side-lines, or branches on the tree of the human race, and Adam had seen his descendants until the 8th generation. ch. 5, 5. When Eve died is unknown.
129	Cain and Abel bring an unequal sacrifice to the Lord; then Abel is slain by Cain. Gen. 4.	987	Enoch ascends to heaven when he is 365 years old. ch. 5, 23. 24.
130	Seth, the other patriarch belonging to the genealogy of the Messiah, is born. ch. 5, 3. cf. ch. 4, 25.	1042	Seth dies when he is 912 years old. ch. 5, 8.
235	Enos is born to Seth when he was 105 years old. ch. 5, 6.	1056	Noah is born to Lamech when he is 182 years old. ch. 5, 20.
325	Kenan is born to Enos in the 90th year of his age. ch. 5, 9.	1140	Enos dies, aged 905 years. ch. 5, 11.
395	Mahalaleel is born to Kenan when he was 70 years old. v. 12.	1235	Kenan dies, 910 years old. v. 14.
460	Jared is born to Mahalaleel in the 60th year of his age. v. 15.	1290	Mahalaleel dies, 895 years old. v. 17. The wickedness of men increases with them, specifically among the Cainites, such that those from the other main line, namely Seth's, also become entangled. ch. 6, 1-5.
622	Enoch is born to Jared in the 162nd year of his age. v. 18.	1422	Jared dies, 962 years old. ch. 5, 20.