Chapter 1: A Place to Begin
Study activity, printable worksheet, explained answers, and source references for your chapter.
Printed chapter: pages 7-11. Complete connected chart: pages 98–145. These page references match the reviewed manuscript.
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Read a line, then its numbers
Open Genesis 5:3-11. Find Seth above and below the scale. Ask a younger learner to name the person and point to each number. Ask an older learner to label the numbers as lifespan, age at a named birth, or date coordinate. Finish by explaining one label in a complete sentence.
Find the detail on the chart, identify what each number measures, and record the source used for your explanation.
Practice questions and explained answers
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1. What do Seth’s 912 and 105 measure?
912 is his total lifespan; 105 is his age when Enos was born. Genesis 5:6-8 supplies these different measurements.
2. What does one red division of Adams’ scale represent?
Ten years, according to the scale instruction. Read that instruction before estimating an interval.
3. Why are 130 AM and 3874 BC not separate births?
They are two coordinates for the same event in Adams’ adopted chronology: 4004 - 130 = 3874.
4. Which Enoch belongs to Cain’s branch?
Cain’s son, named in Genesis 4:17. Parentage identifies him; a repeated name alone does not.
5. Can spacing supply exact dates for Cain’s descendants?
No. Adams explicitly marks their dates and ages as unknown. The drawing cannot supply information its own caption withholds.
6. Does Adam’s 930 establish Eve’s lifespan?
No. Genesis 5:5 gives Adam’s lifespan. It does not state Eve’s total years.
Complete connected chart
Download all four parts and print in order, at actual size (100%). These contain one complete set of 48 numbered chart tiles, divided into four downloads. Follow the tile labels to connect the chart. Use the chapter enlargements for small lettering.
- Chart part 1 of 4 — tiles 1–12
- Chart part 2 of 4 — tiles 13–24
- Chart part 3 of 4 — tiles 25–36
- Chart part 4 of 4 — tiles 37–48
Sources to consult
These are the chapter’s source references, not quotations from those works. Use the named title, institution, record number, or passage to locate the source. Some external sources may have access restrictions.
- Genesis 5, King James Version. Check the numerical genealogy and the identity of Jared's son.
- Genesis 4:17-22, King James Version. Check Cain's family sequence and the information the passage supplies.
- David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, title-page record 6000.014: author, edition, publisher, catalogue date, and title wording. Timeanddate.com, What Do CE and BCE Mean: meanings and sequence of the conventional BC and AD era labels.
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