The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

CHAP. XI.

HEathenism beginneth at Babel; when the Hebrew Tongue is lost to all the world, but only to one family: in that Tongue alone was God preached, and the doctrine of salvation published, and when that is lost, Religion is lost with it, and all the earth be∣come strangers to God, and closed up in blindness and superstition: and in this estate did it continue for the space of 2203. years, till the gift of Tongues at Sion began to recure the confusion of Tongues at Babel: and the Heathens thereby were so far brought into the true Religion, that even Babel it self was among those that knew the Lord, Psal. 87. 4. and a Church there elect, as well as the Jews, 1 Pet. 5. 13.

The second Age of the World: From the Flood to the Promise given to Abraham.

The ten Fathers after the Flood.

Flood	World	Noah	Sem
2	1658	602	100	Arphaxad born.
37	1693	637	135	35	Shelah born.
67	1723	667	165	65	30	Eber born.
101	1757	701	199	99	64	34	Peleg born. Languages confounded about the time of his birth.
131	1787	731	229	129	94	64	30	Reu born.
163	1819	763	261	161	126	96	62	32	Serug born.
193	1849	793	291	191	156	126	92	62	30	Nahor born.
222	1878	822	320	220	185	155	121	91	59	29	Terah born.
292	1948	892	390	290	255	225	191	161	129	99	70	Haran born.
340	1996	940	438	338	303	273	239	209	177	147	118	48	Peleg dieth.
341	1997	941	439	339	304	274		210	178	148	119	49	1	Nahor dieth.
350	2006	950	448	348	313	283		219	187		138	58	10	9	Noah dieth.
352	2008		450	350	315	285		221	189		130	60	12	11	2	Abraham born.
370	2026		468	368	333	303		239	207		148		30	29	20	18	Reu dieth.
393	2049		491	391	356	326			230		171			52	43	41	23	Serug dieth.
427	2083		525	425	390	360					205			86	77	75	57	34	Tera dieth, Gen. 11. 32. The Promise given to Abraham, Gen. 12. 1.

With this latter part of the eleventh of Genesis, read 1 Chron. 1. Vers. 24, 25, 26, 27.

Sem in the very front of the generations of the new world, standeth without mention of father or mother, beginning of days, or end of life: as Heb. 7. 3. The age of man was shortned at the confusion of Babel, for Peleg and those born after him live not above half the time of those born before. He dieth the first of all this line, to shew Gods dis∣like of that rebellion, which befell in the year of his birth. Nahor dieth the next year after him, having lived a shorter life then he, to shew the like displeasure against the Idolatry, which was begun in that line also. Terah at seventy years old hath his son Haran; and Abraham is born to him when he is an hundred and thirty: this appeareth by casting Abrams age when he departs out of Haran to go for Canaan after his fathers death. Men frame intricacies and doubts to themselves here, where the Text is plain, if it be not wrested. God in Ur of the Caldees calleth Abram out of his Idolatry, and out of that Idolatrous Country where he had caught it, to leave his Country and kindred, and to go for a Land, that he would shew him, Acts 7. 2. Abram leaveth his Idolatry and imbraceth this call, and so also doth his father Terah, [and therefore the conduct of the journy is ascribed to him for honours sake, Gen. 11. 31.] and they depart from Ur and go to Haran, and there they dwell, and there at last Terah dieth. After his death God giveth Abram another call, to leave his Countrey, kindred, and fathers house too now, and to follow him whither he calls him: and so he did, and he was seventy and five years old when he departs from Haran. Now taking seventy and five out of two hundred and five years of Terah, at which age he died, it is appa∣rent that Abram was born to Terah when he was a hundred and thirty years old, and therefore must that passage, Verse 26. And Terah lived seventy years and begat Abram, Na∣hor, and Haran, be understood that he begat one of these; as the like expression is, Chap. 5. 32. Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah begat Sem, Ham and Japhet: Haran was Terahs eldest son, though named last, as Japhet was Noahs: Abram is named first, because of his dignity, and because the story was to fall upon him: And so is it with Sem in that place.