Inerrant Lie #21

Another lie from "God's ineffable, inerrant word":

Moses', Aaron's, and Miriam's pedigrees are phonier than the proprietary cash flashed and burned readily and freely in the cinema of Hollywood's productions. Moses, Aaron, and Miriam (according to the scriptural account supplied by Moses) were of the line of Levi through Kohath, Levi's second of three sons. Levi was the third of Jacob's twelve sons.

According to Genesis 46:11, Kohath and his younger brother Merari were already born to Levi when Jacob (the father of Levi) allegedly packed the family on the carts purportedly sent to him by his next- to- youngest son, Joseph, and moved the family to Egypt. For context, it may be noted that Judah, Jacob's fourth son, had already begotten his own grandson (Pharez) through his widowed daughter- in- law, Tamar, at the time of the purported move (Genesis 38).

Joseph (the next- to- youngest of Jacob's twelve sons) preceded Jacob and the rest of the family into Egypt by an indeterminate number of years, having been sold as human traffic by his older brothers, at the marriageable age of seventeen. Joseph had already begotten his two sons by the time his father Jacob and his eleven brothers arrived in Egypt.

Of Amram, whom Moses alleges his father to be, Exodus 6:18 (according to the law of parsimony) says that he was Kohath’s firstborn son. "And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty and three years.”

It may safely be assumed Kohath (Amram’s father) was at least two years old at the time of the alleged move to Egypt, inasmuch as his younger brother (Merari) was already born when they allegedly made the move. Thus, if Levi begat his sons later in life than his brothers begat their own, Kohath, Levi's second- of- three sons (Moses’ and Aaron's alleged grandfather) may have passed away as late as 131 years into the sojourn in Egypt inasmuch as Kohath lived 133 years total: as recorded by Moses in Exodus 6:18, above.

Being as Amram was Kohath’s firstborn- of- four sons, it's safe to assume Amram would have been born at least six years before Kohath's youngest son was born. Therefore it is likewise safe to assume that– if Kohath was begetting children in the final years of his 133- year life (a big “if”)-- Amram (Moses' and Aaron's alleged father) could have been born in the one hundred twenty- seventh year of Kohath, his father, (the one hundred twenty- fifth year of sojourn): at the very latest. That's if Kohath went 127 years before suddenly begetting all four sons in the last possible moments before expiring. A very big “if.”

According to Exodus 6:20, “the years of the life of Amram [Kohath's firstborn son, and Moses’ alleged father] were an hundred and thirty and seven years.” Inasmuch as the latest possible date at which Amram could have been born is 125 years into the sojourn in Egypt: the latest possible date for Amram to have begotten his youngest child, Moses, would have been 262 years into the sojourn in Egypt [the sum of Kohath's longest possible sojourn, (131 years minus six years in respect of Amram's firstborn status) equalling 125 years, plus all of Amram's 137 years]. Again, this late date would only be obtained if Amram begat Moses in the one hundred thirty- seventh year of his life: another very big “if.”

In Exodus 12:41, Moses states unequivocally, “it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years [total sojourn], even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.” Accordingly, the youngest Moses could have possibly been at the time of the exodus from Egypt is the difference between 430 and 262, inasmuch as his alleged father, Amram, could not have died any later than 262 years into the 430- year sojourn. Which is to say, 168 years old is the youngest Moses could have possibly been at the time of the exodus, if Amram were (as Moses claims) Moses’ father. 168 years is more than twice the age Moses claims to have been at the time of Israel's exodus from Egypt; and forty- eight years older than Moses purportedly was when he died.

Of Amram’s wife (Moses', Aaron's, and Miriam’s alleged mother) Exodus 6:20 says, "And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife..." Thus, Amram purportedly married his own aunt: the daughter of Levi; sister of Kohath. Inasmuch as his wife was a generation older than himself, Amram most likely begat all his children before he was fifty, to say the least. After all, Jochebed would have been in a hurry to bear children, even if Amram wasn't, given that she most likely married late by the standards of the lifespans of that time.

Nonetheless, even if Amram had begotten Moses the last year of his life (never mind how old his auntie wife would have been at the time of bearing)– after himself being born to his own father at a comparably late age–: Moses would be closer to two hundred than one hundred years of age, at the time of the exodus from Egypt. Miriam (Moses' and Aaron's alleged sister) would have been older still. [Aaron would have been at least 171 years of age, at the time of the exodus, inasmuch as he was purportedly three years older than Moses.]

Exodus 7:7 says, “And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.” That is to say, Moses was– by his own testimony– eighty years old when Israel absconded from Egypt. We know Moses and the children of Israel departed Egypt in the selfsame year in which he and Aaron “spake unto Pharaoh,” (as Exodus 7:7 says) because “Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died… [Deuteronomy 34:7]” after wandering forty years in the wilderness between Goshen and Shittim. Eighty years old at- the- time- of- exodus is an impossible figure for Moses' age given the respective lifespans of Kohath and Amram (Moses' alleged grandfather and father, respectively) in light of the 430- year length of the children of Israel's Egyptian stay, which is confirmed by the same Moses, in Exodus 12:41.

To put it another way: as we've already ascertained, the latest Amram could have possibly died is 262 years into the sojourn in Egypt. 262 plus eighty (the age Moses says he was, in years, when said sojourn allegedly ended) is 342- years- into- a- purportedly- 430- year- stint. This, again, makes for an eighty- eight- year difference between Moses' given pedigree and the furthest limits of possibility.

The bottom line is that, even if a number of miracles had occurred in favor of Kohath and Amram begetting children long after either most likely could have (or would've even wanted to), Moses was simply born no fewer than eighty- eight years too late for Amram to have been his father. Truly, if you can believe Amram was Moses' father, you can believe George Washington, who signed the Declaration of Independence, is my progenitor. That's how false Moses' pedigree is. 

Who's child was Moses? Was he, as he claims, raised by the daughter of Pharaoh, or is that a lie, too. Did Moses even exist? Is this the seminal similarity Moses shares with Jesus of Nazareth– that neither one ever did, in fact, exist? Either way, Moses' pedigree is the lie Jesus' pedigree seems to be (barring, of course, the virgin- birth part of the latter, which science says is legitimately possible).