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God warns Noah and commands the ark Dated from the sources quoted below
True span 4004 BC – AD 100
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How we know the date Ussher counts the 120 years of Genesis 6:3 back from the Flood. Ussher's Annals (1650) gives 2469 BC (its year of the world 1536 a).
Written in-house from the sources below · every year is a quotation
The sources, word for word “1536. a. Deus, priusquam diluvium in mundum impiorum induceret, Noachum justitiae sue praconem ad illos misit: 120. annorum termino ad resipiscendum eis constituto?. 1556. d.”
Ussher, Annales Veteris Testamenti (1650), Latin text in The Whole Works of James Ussher, vols. VIII–XI (Dublin, 1864) · vol. VIII, AM 1536 a · gives 2469 BC Sources