What an odd passage Genesis 5 is.

So odd that it lends credibility to the idea of a purpose other than narrative and age-of-the-Earth dogma.

To my sense.


I mean, it is effectively a string of numbers.

As an example: why are the subject's other children all lumped into one birthdate?

Why even give the specific years, at all? For such a long string, otherwise unreferenced (to my knowledge)?





EDIT

Seems I'm a bit hazy…. it's that the others were 'not relevant' to the line.


Genesis 5
Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)

5 (vi) Here is the genealogy of Adam. On the day that God created man he made him in the likeness of God; 2 he created them male and female; he blessed them and called them Adam [humankind, man] on the day they were created. 3 After Adam lived 130 years he fathered a son like himself and named him Shet. 4 After Shet was born, Adam lived another 800 years and had both sons and daughters. 5 In all, Adam lived 930 years, and then he died.

6 Shet lived 105 years and fathered Enosh. 7 After Enosh was born, Shet lived another 807 years and had sons and daughters. 8 In all, Shet lived 912 years; then he died.

9 Enosh lived ninety years and fathered Kenan. 10 After Kenan was born, Enosh lived another 815 years and had sons and daughters. 11 In all, Enosh lived 905 years; then he died.