Note 7 — Chapter I · EXTENT OF THE FIRST AGE OF THE WORLD.

Dr. Hales says, “The Targum of Jonathan Ben Uzziel, of the highest authority among the Jews, thus paraphrases Gen. iv. 25: ‘And Adam knew his wife when 130 years were completed after Abel was killed.’ And the same account is furnished by the Bereshith Rabba, More Nevochim, Midrash Tanchuma, Solomon Jarchi, Elias, and others of their principal writers.”—See his “Analysis of Chronology,” vol. i. p. 80. Indeed, the whole of the second article of the second section of his Introduction, is well worth perusal, being full of very curious and interesting matter, all tending powerfully to prove that the longer computation of the Septuagint was the true and original computation of the Hebrew text. His comparison of the Masorete and Samaritan texts in regard to Genesis xi. 10–32, is very valuable; see p. 82.