Inerrant Lie #21

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

Moses' and Aaron's (and most likely Miriam's) pedigrees are way- more counterfeit than Barry Obama's birth certificate could dream of being. 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. According to Genesis 46:11 ["And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari."], Kohath and his younger brother Merari were already born when Jacob packed the family on the carts sent to him by Joseph and moved to Egypt.

The man, Amram, whom Moses alleges his father to be, is recorded by Moses in Exodus 6:18 to have been Kohath's first son. This Kohath lived a total of 133 years. "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 [Exodus 6:18].”

It may safely be assumed Kohath was at least two years old at the time of the move to Egypt, inasmuch as his younger brother was already born when they moved. This allows (by subtraction: [133 years (the entire lifespan of Kohath) minus two years (Kohath’s earliest age upon entry into Egypt)] perhaps as many as 131 years for Kohath to have begotten his sons in Egypt.

However, being as Amram was Kohath’s firstborn of four sons, it's safe enough to assume Amram would have been born at least six years before Kohath's youngest son was born. This, in turn, indicates the very latest date at which Moses' father, Amram, could have been born would have been (131- minus- 6 equals) 125 years into the Egyptian sojourn.

According to Exodus 6:20, Amram lived a total of 137 years. This means that, if Kohath begat Amram (125 years into the Egyptian sojourn) at 131 years old– the latest possible date– and Amram begat Moses the very last year of his life, Moses would have been born (125 + 137 equals) 262 years into the sojourn in Egypt, at the very latest.

Exodus 12:41 says unequivocally, “it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years [total sojourn (verse 40, ibid.)], even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.” 430 years (sojourn) minus 262 years (the latest year of sojourn in which Amram would have been able to beget Moses) leaves 168- years- before- the- exodus as the latest possible date at which Moses could have been born, if he were (as he himself alleges) Amram's youngest son.

Exodus 6:20 sheds light on Amram’s wife (Moses', Aaron's, and Miriam’s alleged mother) in a ‘coloring’ fashion. "And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years [Exodus 6:20]." Thus, Amram allegedly 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. Jochebed would have been in a hurry to bear children, even if Amram wasn't. Nonetheless, even if Amram begat Moses the last year of his life, Moses would be closer to two- hundred than to one- hundred years of age, at the time of the exodus.

We know, from Exodus 12:41, that the sojourn in Egypt was exactly 430 years in duration. And we know that Moses was, by his own account, eighty years old when the children of Israel departed from Egypt, inasmuch as “Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died [Deuteronomy 34:7]” after forty years wandering in the wilderness (120- minus- 40 equals 80).

But if 80 (Moses' age, in years, at exodus) is added to 262 (the absolutely latest year of the Egyptian sojourn in which Moses could have possibly been begotten of Amram), the sum is 342: meaning the pedigree given (by Moses) for Moses and Aaron is impossible by no less than 88 years (342 + 88 equals 430), and most likely much more than this-- well over a hundred years, almost certainly (considering Jochebed was likely substantially older than Amram). 

Miriam's age is never mentioned by Moses, but again: she would have been close to– or exceeding– two- hundred years old at exodus, if she were Amram and Jochebed’s daughter. Whose children were Moses, Aaron, and Miriam?