ALPHABETIC HISTORY of CIVILIZATION
ANCIENT and MODERN GENEALOGIES

PREFACE
This book evaluates historical knowledge as it relates to ancient and modern genealogies.
Information gleaned from social contexts, both secular and religious, are reviewed, using
modern genealogical research specialist standards: to properly reconstruct and correctly
portray real historical lives and family pedigrees.  Cultural, religious and family tradition,
(their stated facts and viewpoints), are surveyed within given ancient contexts of primary
and secondary record sources, as handed down for the benefit of our modern generation.
Modern claims of genealogical attachment to biblical records are noted, with remarks.

INTRODUCTION

Pliny the Elder, circa A.D. 23 - 79, scholar, historian, and scientific encyclopedist,
born at Novum Comum in northern Italy but mainly resident of Rome, mentions
the Phoenicians in his thirty seven book work: Natural History.  This record,
considered by some as the apex of ancient science after the time of the school
of Aristotle, stated that: "To the Phoenician people belongs the glory of having
invented letters and discovered the sciences of astronomy, navigation and the art
of war."  In Ancient Fragments, by Isaac Preston Cory, Esq., mention is made
of the Greek historian previous to the Christian era, by name called Eupolemus.
This Eupolemus notes that in the tenth generation, Abraham lived in Camarina of
Babylonia [Urie], a city of the Chaldeans, and was of noble heritage and superior
to all others in wisdom.  Abraham was stated to be the inventor of astrology and
the Chaldaean magic; esteemed of God due to his eminent and recognized piety.
Under the direction of the God of Heaven, Abraham removed and lived in
Phoenicia, and there taught the Phoenicians the motions of the sun and moon
and all other things, for which reason, he was held in great reverence, by the
Phoenician King.

Louis H. Feldman writes about "Proselytes and 'Sympathizers' in the light
of the new inscriptions from Aphrodisias", in Revue des Etudes juives,
CXLVIII (3-4), juillet-decenbre 1989, pp. 265-305; that: "The Jews'
reputed skill in astrology may likewise have proved an attraction.
The Graeco-Jewish historian Artapanus (ca. 100 B.C.E.) (ap. Eusebius,
Praeparatio Evangelica 9.18.1) states that it was Abraham who taught
the Egyptian pharaoh the science of astrology.  Similar statements are
found in pseudo-Eupolemus (ap. Eusebius, Praeparatio Evangelica 9.17.8)
and Josephus (Antiquities 1.167).

Indeed, Hadrian  (Sciptores Historiae Augustae,Quadrigae Tyrannorum 8.3)
remarks that there is no chief of a synagogue who is not an astrologer
(mathematicus), soothsayer (haruspex), or anointer (aliptes).  Moreover, in
the middle of the second century, Vettius Valens, in his astrological work,
Anthologiae (2.28,29), refers to Abraham as a most wonderful astrological
authority.  Furthermore, Abraham's skill in astrology is mentioned no fewer
than four times in Firmicus Maternus' fourth century astrological treatise,
the Mathesis (4: Proemium 5, 17.2, 17.5, and 18.1).  Firmicus' contemporary
Julian (Contra Galilaeos 356C) remarks that Abraham employed the method
of divination from shooting stars and from the flight of birds.  Since, we may
remark, proselytes are regarded as children of Abraham, himself the first
proselyte, they would presumably identify with him as an astrologer."

Critical analysis of evidence discussed within these records shows some
historical validity of the existence of an Abraham, connected with knowledge
of planetary motions, practice of an internationally recognized religious priesthood,
as well as being a teacher and communicator through letters and writings.  Secondary
evidence is thus provided for the statement given in The Book of Abraham, translated
from papyrus by Joseph Smith, Jr., from Chapter 1, Verse 31; namely:
"But the records of the fathers, even the patriarchs, concerning the right of Priesthood,
the Lord my God preserved in mine own hands; therefore a knowledge of the beginning
of the creation, and also of the planets, and of the stars, as they were made known unto
the fathers, have I kept even unto this day, and I shall endeavor to write some of these
things upon this record, for the benefit of my posterity that shall come after me."
The Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr. received Hebrew language education, by the instructions
of the erudite Jew, Joshua Seixas, whose family pedigree is listed and recorded in the
book: First American Jewish Families, by Rabbi Malcolm H. Stern, FASG.

Additional secondary evidence comes from the Grammar & Alphabet
of the Egyptian Language, in which the ancient patriarchs are listed:
Phah eh         The first man, or Adam, coming from Adam -
                       Keys or right over Patriarchal right by appointment;
                       Also know as: Ba eth Ka - Adam or the first man, or first king
Ba eth Kee   The next from Adam, one ordained under him,
                       a patriarch or the right of the first born [Seth]
Ba eth Ki      The third patriarch: or right of the first born [Enos]
Ba eth Ko     The fourth patriarch from Adam the right of first born [Cainan]
Ba eth Ku     The fifth high priest from Adam [Mahalaleel]

The Pearl of Great Price and Book of Abraham indicate "the book of Abraham should
be evaluated on the basis of what it claims to be—Abraham's own account of his life."
The Deseret News, Salt Lake City, November 27, 1967, notes the finding of eleven
papyrus fragments, in the NYC Metropolitan Museum of Art.  The back of the papyri
were pasted down to paper with "drawings of a temple and maps of the Kirtland, Ohio
area."  An affidavit of Emma Smith stated that these papyri had been in the possession
of Joseph Smith, Jr.  According to this source, the Biblical creation story, the deluge,
"the records of the fathers, even the patriarchs," appear therefore as genealogical
primary source records, transcribed by Abraham from "preserved" and "kept" data,
handed down from generation to generation.  As noted by the History of the Church,
Vol. 2, Ch. 17, p. 236-238, July 1835, Joseph Smith, Jr. determined that "one of the
rolls contained the writings of Abraham, another the writings of Joseph of Egypt"
and he "was continually engaged in translating an alphabet to the Book of Abraham,
and arranging a grammar of the Egyptian language as practiced by the ancients."

From a genealogical research standpoint, "arranging a grammar of the Egyptian
language as practiced by the ancients", suggests that all the ancient patriarchs,
beginning with Adam, the Ancient of Days, were skilled in the art of record keeping.
This thought is further clarified in the Book of Moses, P of GP, Chapter 6, verses 5-8:
"And a ^abook of ^bremembrance was kept, in the which was recorded, in the ^clanguage
of Adam, for it was given unto as many as called upon God to write by the spirit
of ^dinspiration;  And by them their ^achildren were taught to read and write, having
a ^blanguage which was ^cpure and undefiled.  Now this same ^aPriesthood, which was
in the beginning, shall be in the end of the world also.  Now this prophecy Adam spake,
as he was moved upon by the ^aHoly Ghost, and a ^bgenealogy was kept of the ^cchildren
of God.  And this was the ^dbook of the generations of Adam, saying: In the day that
God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;"  The KJV Bible record declares
in Exodus, Chapter 24, verse 4: "And Moses ^awrote all the words of the LORD . . .",
of which in Chapter 5, verse 1 of Genesis, Moses recorded: "THIS is the ^abook of the
^bgenerations of Adam.  In the day that God created man, in the ^clikeness of God ^dmade
he him; "  The cross comparison of information shows a correct match of Biblical
Genesis, Chapter 5, verse 1, with The Pearl of Great Price, Book of Moses, Chapter 6,
verse 8.  Clearly, internal source evidence suggests primary source documents, or
copies thereof, going back to the time of Adam and (Eve - the Mother of all Living),
were available to Moses, who then wrote or copied them for himself and other Israelites.


GENEALOGIES:
A Master Number beginning with three digits is given to the direct line
descending stem.  All other descending lineages are ordered according to
where they connect into the direct line of descent as sons or daughters.
They have a dash (-) to show the connection.  The Numbers are arranged
by time of birth in the family, where possible, with the direct descendant
being placed where he or she belongs by order of birth.  In cases of long
and questionable pedigrees, the lineage is shown descending down, but
with no numbering system attached.  Added commentary is author's opinion.



001:   GOD: The Eternal FATHER: AHMAN (ELOHEIM - ELOHIM)

Family of God, the Eternal Father (Ahman):
God the Father
Marriages:  God, by definition, is a couple, or husband and wife (wives)
                    combination.  When the Father said He created Man; male
                    and female created He them, in His own image, it means:
                    My immortal wife and I created our children in the image
                    of ourselves.  Each and every person born on this earth has
                    a spirit body of contained intelligence: a spirit child of God.
                    Ahman, a glorified, immortal Man, in the Meridian of Time,
                    physically associated with the mortal Mary, who was over-
                    come by the Holy Ghost, becoming the literal physical and
                    spiritual Father of Jesus Christ, His Only Begotten Son.
                    The Eternal Father was married or priesthood sealed to
                    the exceedingly fair and white virgin Mary, mortal mother
                    of Jesus Christ, prior to her conception; for that which was
                    conceived in her was of the ^cHoly Ghost.  Luke 1: 26-55
                    records the formal eternal betrothal, which was part of
                    ancient Mosaic legal and lawful wedding ceremony, as
                    announced by the angel Gabriel, who was formerly known
                    as Noah in mortality, recorded in the biblical Old Testament.
                    The angel Gabriel, or Noah, was the family head over Mary,
                    holding the keys of all living upon the face of the earth, the
                    highest patriarchal priesthood religious authority after Adam.
                    "Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed
                    art thou among ^awomen."  "The ^aHoly Ghost shall come upon thee,
                    and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also
                    that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the ^bSon
                    of God."  Consent by Mary to the terms of the contract: "Behold
                    the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word",
                    sealed the husband and wife relationship.  Joseph, a noted literal
                    descendant of King ^bDavid, by the request of God, took intelligent
                    Mary to wife, becoming the mortal protective stepfather of Jesus Christ.

The Children of 001: God, the Eternal Father
001-001:   DIRECT DESCENDANT 002: (The Only Begotten Son)
                  SON AHMAN - JESUS CHRIST - The Old Testament God: JEHOVAH
                  Jesus Christ was the eldest born spirit child of God, the Eternal Father,
                  in the spirit Kingdom or pre-existence residence of the family of Man.
                  Jesus Christ is the Elder brother of all mankind that will live on this earth.
001-002:   Billions of spirit children of Heavenly Father who refused to follow
                  Jesus Christ in the spirit Kingdom.  These non embodied spirits followed
                  Lucifer, or Satan, in the pre-existence and are numbered as one-third
                  of the the spirit children designated by Ahman to inhabit this earth.
001-003:   Billions of spirit children of Heavenly Father who have been born,
                  are now living, or will ever be born upon this earth.  Sufficiently true
                  and faithful to God in the pre-existence Kingdom, these spirits obtained
                  the right of receiving mortal bodies, in an earthly probationary state.
001-004:   An innumerable, incalculable , countless , immeasurable by man,
                  forever infinitely increasing number of spirit children of Heavenly Father,
                  residing on millions of ^aearths like this, (or, on earths glorified to a celestial,
                  terrestrial or telestial post mortal state); or in the spirit world residence of
                  Heavenly Father, awaiting their time to come to future probationary earths.
                  Moses 1: 37-39  And the Lord God spake unto Moses, saying: The ^aheavens,
                  they are many, and they cannot be numbered unto man; but they are numbered
                  unto me, for they are mine.  And as one earth shall pass away, and the heavens
                  thereof even so shall another come; and there is no ^aend to my works, neither
                  to my words.  For behold, this is my ^awork and my ^bglory—to bring to pass the
                  ^cimmortality and ^deternal ^elife of man.
001-005:   Spirit children of Heavenly Father, who willfully deny the Holy Ghost testimony
                  of Jesus Christ: The Only Begotten Son of God; putting Him to an open shame.
Family Information:
geography (location):
The place where God resides is a great Urim and Thummim, a sea of glass and fire.
To the Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr. the Lord revealed, "And there are many kingdoms;
for there is no space in the which there is no kingdom. . . . And unto every kingdom
is given a law." (D&C 88:37–38.)  The Prophet Abraham wrote, "And I, Abraham,
had the Urim and Thummim, which the Lord my God had given me. . . ."

"And I saw the stars, that they were very great, and that one of them was nearest
unto the throne of God; . . ."

"And the name of the great one is Kolob, because it is near unto me … ; I have set
this one to govern all those which belong to the same order as that upon which thou
standest." (Abr. 3:1–3.)
(Spencer W. Kimball)

life:
God himself, the Father of us all, once dwelt upon an earth in a mortal state,
and went through the same process as Jesus Christ himself did upon this earth.

religion:
Eternal Nature of God, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life.
And were it possible that man could number the particles of the earth, yea,
millions of ^aearths like this, it would not be a beginning to the number of His
^bcreations; for His curtains are stretched out still; and yet He is there, and
His bosom is there; and also He is just; He is merciful and kind forever;
peace, ^bjustice, truth and mercy go before His face and have no end.

time period:
Kolob was after the manner of the Lord, according to its ^atimes and seasons
in the revolutions thereof; that one revolution was a ^bday unto the Lord, after
his manner of reckoning, it being one thousand ^cyears according to the time
appointed unto that whereon thou standest [EARTH].  This is the reckoning
of the Lord’s ^dtime, according to the reckoning of Kolob.  The chronology of
this earth is related to the chronology of Kolob, the name of a celestialized
planet next to the residence of God.  D&C 88: 36-45  And there are many
^akingdoms; for there is no ^bspace in the which there is no ^ckingdom; and
there is no kingdom in which there is no space, either a greater or a lesser
kingdom. . . . And again, verily I say unto you, he hath given a ^alaw unto
all things, by which they move in their ^btimes and their seasons; And their
courses are fixed, even the courses of the heavens and the earth, which
comprehend the earth and all the planets.  And they give ^alight to each
other in their times and in their seasons, in their minutes, in their hours,
in their days, in their weeks, in their months, in their years . . . The earth
^arolls upon her wings, and the ^bsun giveth his light by day, and the moon
giveth her light by night, and the stars also give their light, as they roll
upon their wings in their glory, in the midst of the ^cpower of God.

Jah-oh-eh is the earth under the governing power of Oliblish, Enish-go-
on-dosh, and Ka[i/e/ii]-e-van-rash, which are the grand Key or in other
words, the governing power, which governs the fifteen fixed stars . . .
Oliblish, Enish-go-on-dosh, and Kaii-ven-rash, are the three grand
central powers [similar to the First Presidency] that govern all of the
other creations, which have been sought out by the most aged of all
the fathers, since the beginning of the creation, by means of the Urim
and Thummim.  The names of the other twelve fixed stars [similar to
the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles] are: Kolob (which is swifter in
its motion than the rest of the twelve fixed stars, being first in motion
and delegated to have power over others [similar to the President of
the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles] in regulation of their time, [through
the medium of Kli-flos-is-es and Hah-ko-kau-beam {similar in order
to the Assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles}]), Limdi (the fifth
fixed star in its motion), Zip, Vu[v/s]el, Venist[i/j], Waine, Wa[g/y]oh-
ox-oan, Oansli, [K/Shi/Me]ble, Shin[e/s]flis, Flis and Os[e].

Research Notes:
A.  Elder Orson Pratt spoke on The Holy Spirit and the Godhead, in the open air,
     on the Temple Block [Temple Square], in Great Salt Lake City, [S. L. C., UT]
     February 18, 1855. He noted:
     "What is the name of God in, the pure language?"
     - The answer says, "Ahman."
     "What is the name of the Son of God?"
     - Answer, "Son Ahman-the greatest of all the parts of God excepting Ahman."
     "What is the name of men?"
     - "Sons Ahman," is the answer.
     "What is the name of angels in the pure language?"
     - "Anglo-man."

B.  The Being and Kind of Being God Is: The King Follett Discourse
     President Joseph Smith, Jr. delivered a discourse before about twenty thousand
     Saints at the April conference of the Church, 1844, at the funeral sermon of Elder
     King Follett.  He said: "God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man,
     and sits enthroned in yonder heavens!  That is the great secret.  If the veil were rent
     today, and the great God who holds this world in its orbit, and who upholds all worlds
     and all things by his power, was to make himself visible,—I say, if you were to see him
     today, you would see him like a man in form—like yourselves in all the person, image,
     and very form as a man; for Adam was created in the very fashion, image and likeness
     of God, and received instruction from, and walked, talked and conversed with him,
     as one man talks and communes with another. . . . It is the first principle of the Gospel
     to know for a certainty the Character of God, and to know that we may converse with
     him as one man converses with another, and that he was once a man like us; yea, that
     God himself, the Father of us all, dwelt on an earth, the same as Jesus Christ himself
     did; and I will show it from the Bible."

C.  Spencer W. Kimball, "Seek Learning Even by Study and Also by Faith,"
     Ensign, Sept. 1983, 3

D.  TIME: Ps. 90: 4, 2 Pet. 3: 8, Abr. 3: 4 and Abr. Facsimile No. 2



002:   JESUS CHRIST: SON AHMAN (the Only Begotten Son of God)

Family of Jesus Christ (Son Ahman):
Jesus
Marriage:  John 20: 17-18  Jesus Christ asked Mary Magdalene to refrain
herself from attempting to touch or hold (chibuk) Him, at that time.   Jesus
had not yet ascended unto the Father.  Negiah, meaning "contact" or
"connection" or "touch" in Hebrew, is a notion in Jewish law (Halakha)
that restricts (or forbids) physical contact with, or touching of, a member
of the opposite sex, except for one's spouse, and immediate family.   Also,
when Mary Magdalene was asked by Jesus to speak to the brethren:
"I ascend unto my ^dFather . . . ", women needed a husband's authorized
permission, to leave home, or to legally testify in family related matters.

The Children of 002: Jesus Christ
002-001:   PATRIARCHAL ORDER (by Adoption and Priesthood Sealing)
                  DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 003: SONS AHMAN - ADAM
Family Information:
Jesus' Family Tree

geography (location) and life:
Jesus the Christ by Apostle James E. Talmage.  When Jesus died,
the heavens were ^aveiled; and all the creations of God mourned; and the
earth ^bgroaned; and the rocks were rent; and the ^csaints arose, and were
^dcrowned at the ^eright hand of the Son of Man, with crowns of glory.

religion:
Guide to the Scriptures: Jesus Christ
Index: Jesus Christ
Topical Guide: Jesus Christ

time period:
Historic Jesus
By giving a sense of immediacy to the life and teachings
of Jesus, this web site has meaning and value for all.

Research Notes:
A.  Bible - John 14: 9
     Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou
     not known me, Philip?  He that hath seen me hath seen the ^aFather; and how sayest
     thou then, Shew us the Father?

B.  Doctrine & Covenants - Section 110, Verses 2-3
     "We ^asaw the Lord ^bstanding upon the breastwork of the pulpit, before us; and under
     his feet was a paved work of pure ^cgold, in color like amber. His ^aeyes were as a flame
     of fire; the hair of his head was white like the pure snow; his ^bcountenance shone above
     the brightness of the sun; and his ^cvoice was as the sound of the rushing of great waters,
     even the voice of ^dJehovah,"



003:   ADAM: A SONS AHMAN (son of JESUS CHRIST by priesthood ordinance).
          Adam, being sealed to Christ as His adopted son, becomes thereby,
          a fully established prophet, priest and king; an eternal god in his own
          right and standing.  He exercises the fullness of the patriarchal priesthood.
          Adam possesses the keys of the Universe and rules over his posterity
          and the planet Earth, throughout all eternity.

          Official calling to LDS office of church patriarch, within Hyrum Smith's
          family lineage, who was the brother of Joseph Smith, Jr., created by
          revelation, restoration in Melchizedek priesthood authority of the legal
          independent final word: High Priest Patriarchal Judge.   Equivalent in
          American government, to the Supreme Court of the United States of
          America.  It judicially stands next to the LDS First Presidency, as the
          Supreme Court stands next to the Presidency of the United States of
          America.  The Melchizedek priesthood Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
          and the First Quorum of Seventy, preside in similar manner as the
          American national  legislative bodies, the United States Senate and
          House of Representatives.  Foundations of government were divinely
          established in the Charters of Freedom of the United States of America.

          D&C 107: 56-57  And Adam stood up in the midst of the congregation; and,
          notwithstanding he was bowed down with age, being full of the Holy Ghost,
             ^apredicted whatsoever should befall his posterity unto the latest generation.
          These things were all written in the book of ^aEnoch, and are to be testified
           of in due time.

          By the time of the end of the millennium, all of Adam's posterity who accept
          the gospel must be sealed together as one family by the power of the priesthood,
          which is the power to seal on earth, and it shall be sealed in heaven, and to bind
          on earth, and it shall be bound in heaven.
          (Eldred G. Smith)

          D&C 128: 18  It is sufficient to know, in this case, that the earth will be smitten
          with a ^bcurse unless there is a welding ^clink of some kind or other between the
          fathers and the ^dchildren, upon some subject or other—and behold what is that
          subject?  It is the ^ebaptism for the dead.  For we without them cannot be made
          perfect; neither can they without us be made perfect.  Neither can they nor we
          be made perfect without those who have died in the gospel also; for it is necessary
          in the ushering in of the dispensation of the ^ffulness of times, which dispensation
          is now beginning to usher in, that a whole and complete and perfect union, and
          welding together of dispensations, and keys, and powers, and glories should take
          place, and be revealed from the days of Adam even to the present time.  And not
          only this, but those things which never have been revealed from the ^gfoundation
          of the world, but have been kept hid from the wise and prudent, shall be revealed
          unto ^hbabes and sucklings in this, the dispensation of the fulness of times.

          Moses 3: 20  And Adam gave ^anames to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air,
          and to every beast of the field.  Adam was taught by God to read and write.
          Adam and Eve were exceedingly intelligent, both before and after the Fall.

          No lesson is more manifest in nature than that all living things do as
          the Lord commanded in the Creation.  They reproduce "after their own kind."
          (See Moses 2:12, 24.)  They follow the pattern of their parentage.  Everyone
          knows that; every four-year-old knows that!  A bird will not become an animal
          nor a fish.  A mammal will not beget reptiles, nor "do men gather … figs of thistles."
          (Matt. 7:16.)

          In the countless billions of opportunities in the reproduction of living things, one
          kind does not beget another.  If a species ever does cross, the offspring cannot
          reproduce.  The pattern for all life is the pattern of the parentage.

          This is demonstrated in so many obvious ways, even an ordinary mind should
          understand it.  Surely no one with reverence for God could believe that His children
          evolved from slime or from reptiles.  (Although one can easily imagine that those
          who accept the theory of evolution don't show much enthusiasm for genealogical
          research!)  The theory of evolution, and it is a theory, will have an entirely different
          dimension when the workings of God in creation are fully revealed.
          (Boyd K. Packer)

Family of Adam (a Sons Ahman):
Adam
Marriage:
"And I, God said unto mine Only Begotten, which was with me from the beginning:
Let us make man [not a separate man, but a complete man, which is husband and wife]
in our image, after our likeness; and it was so." (Moses 2:26.)  What a beautiful
partnership!  Adam and Eve were married for eternity by the Lord.  Such a marriage
extends beyond the grave.  All peoples should call for this kind of marriage.
(Spencer W. Kimball)

D&C 132: 38  David also received ^amany wives and concubines,
and also Solomon and Moses my servants, as also many others
of my servants, from the beginning of creation until this time;
and in nothing did they sin save in those things which they received
not of me.

The Children of 003: Adam and his wife Eve:
003-001:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 004: BOOK -
                  Unidentified Moses 5: 2
003-002:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 004: BOOK -
                  Unidentified Moses 5: 2
003-003:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a dau) 004: BOOK -
                  Unidentified Moses 5: 2
003-004:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a dau) 004: BOOK -
                  Unidentified Moses 5: 2
003-005:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (sons-) 004: BOOK -
                  Moses 5: 2  Possible other married sons, with posterity.
003-006:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (daus-) 004: BOOK -
                  Moses 5: 2  Possible other married daughters, with posterity.
003-007    DIRECT DESCENDANT (chldn) 004: BOOK -
                  Moses 5: 2  Possible other unmarried children, etc.
003-008:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 004: BOOK - Cain
                  Master Mahan married one of his brothers' daughters.  Cain,
                  with his wife and many of his brethren dwelt in the land of Nod,
                  on the east of Eden.  Cainhannoch was a code name for "New York".
003-009:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 004: BOOK - Abel
                  Righteous priesthood holder who was murdered by his brother Cain.
003-010:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 004: SETH
003-011:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (sons-) 004: BOOK -
                  Gen. 5: 4  Moses 6: 11  Many other married sons, with posterity.
003-012:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (daus-) 004: BOOK -
                  Gen. 5: 4  Moses 6: 11  Many other married daughters, with posterity.
003-013:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (chldn) 004: BOOK -
                  Gen. 5: 4  Moses 6: 11  Many possible unmarried children, etc.
Family Information:
Adamic Language

geography (location):
Spring Hill, Daviess County, Missouri (USA) is named in scripture, by the Lord:
Adam-ondi-Ahman (Garden of Eden).  The land where Adam dwelt was part
of the geographic area of the Garden of Eden; insomuch, that Adam and Eve
heard the voice of the Lord from the way toward the Garden of Eden, speaking
unto them.  To Adam and Eve, it appears to have been a familiar, remembered
sacred spot, where they had previously had personal contact with God;
contiguous, neighboring, or adjacent to Spring Hill, Daviess County, MO (USA).
The garden of Eden was located on what is now the North American continent.
D&C 117: 8  Is there not room enough on the mountains of ^aAdam-ondi-Ahman,
and on the plains of Olaha ^bShinehah, or the land where ^cAdam dwelt, suggests
a different geographical configuration for the North American land mass.
According to Gen. 2: 10-14, a river went out of ^aEden to water the garden;
and from thence it was ^bparted, and became into four heads.  The name of
the first is Pison: that is it which ^acompasseth the whole land of ^bHavilah,
where there is gold; And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium
and ^athe onyx stone.  And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same
is it that ^acompasseth the whole land of ^bEthiopia.  And the name of the third
river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria.  And the
fourth river is Euphrates.  The mountains of ^aAdam-ondi-Ahman, by rainfall
or massive underground sources, brought forth a river that went out of the
Garden of ^aEden, to water the garden; and from thence it was ^bparted, and
became into four heads, within the unified confines of one worldwide land
mass area; being an apparent elevated area, central to the location of the
current State of Missouri, in the USA, North American Continent (A.D. 2007).
Photograph: The Valley of Adam-ondi-Ahman

life:
Adam  Besides the Fall having had to do with Adam and Eve, causing a
change to come over them, that change affected all human nature, all of
the natural creations, all of the creation of animals, plants--all kinds of life
were changed. The earth itself became subject to death.
(Harold B. Lee)

The celestial environment in the Garden of Eden, including the celestial
bodies of Adam and Eve, had no Radioactive Decay: the death process.
After the Fall, the vegetarian animals and some plants became carnivorous.

religion:
Moses 6: 64  And it came to pass, when the Lord had spoken with Adam, our
father, that Adam cried unto the Lord, and he was ^acaught away by the Spirit
of the Lord, and was carried down into the water, and was laid under the ^bwater,
and was brought forth out of the water.  Adam had, prior to the Fall, helped to make
and organize this world, as MICHAEL, the Archangel, in the spirit world, with
Jehovah and Eloheim.  He is the head patriarchal priesthood representative of
all mankind, under Jesus Christ, the Only ^dBegotten of the Father, (through whom
the ^bworlds are and were created, and the ^cinhabitants thereof are begotten ^dsons
and daughters unto God).  [Note:  When Adam and Eve were cast out of the
Garden of Eden, they became subject to physical death, as well as being spiritually
excommunicated from the presence of God.  They were given Temple garments
to wear, made of skins (the first biological animal deaths), to protect them from
the temporal elements, during this probationary excommunicated time period.
Adam and Eve fell into a temporal married status.  After Adam received some
restoration of his priesthood ordinances, he baptized his wife Eve.  Adam and Eve
were the first members of the Church of the Firstborn, even Jesus Christ, upon
this earth.   Special priesthood ordinances were performed to restore the Eternal
Marriage Covenant, received from Jehovah in the Garden of Eden, prior to the fall.]
D&C 107: 53  Adam was the presiding High Priest D&C 107: 3 in the ^aHoly Priesthood,
after the ^bOrder of the Son of God.  After his death, the Ancient of Days, entered into
paradise, waiting there for thousands of years, looking forward to the resurrection
of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Master.  Adam and Eve, with their righteous posterity,
were gathered together when Christ died; an innumerable company of ^ajust spirits,
those who had been ^bfaithful in the ^ctestimony of Jesus while they lived in mortality.
These ^adead individuals had looked upon the long absence of their ^bspirits from their
bodies as a ^cbondage.  The Lord Jesus Christ taught them, and gave them ^apower to
come forth, after His resurrection from the dead, to enter into His Father’s kingdom,
there to receive mansions on high, and be crowned with ^bimmortality and eternal life.
Jesus Christ freely gave His life in pure charity.  He manifested appreciation and true
reciprocation for the physical body He obtained from Mary, through the lineage
of Adam, which granted the Messiah the opportunity to be exalted to Eternal Lives;
providing also, the means by which all mankind might be saved, through repentance
and perfect obedience to the fullness of the ordinances of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

time period: 4000 B.C. to 3070 B.C.
Adam was 130 years old when Seth was born (Gen. 5:3).  And the days of Adam,
after he had begotten Seth, were 800 years, making him 930 years old when he
died (Gen. 5:4-5).  Lamech, the 9th from Adam, and the father of Noah, was 56
years old when Adam died; Methuselah, 243; Enoch, 308; Jared, 470;
Mahalaleel, 535; Cainan, 605; Enos, 695; and Seth, 800.  So that Lamech
(the father of Noah), Methuselah, Enoch, Jared, Mahalaleel, Cainan, Enos,
Seth, and Adam, were all living at the same time, and beyond all controversy
were all preachers of righteousness.

Research Notes:
A.  CREATION: The Origin of Man and The Origin of Man & Organic Evolution
     This earth has a temporal existence of 7,000 years.  Radioactive Decay,
     or the death process, did not begin upon this earth, prior to the partaking of
     the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden.  The process of decay and physical
     degeneration upon the earth was slower during the time of the early Patriarchs.

     Q. What are we to understand by the book which John saw, which was ^asealed
          on the back with seven seals?
          - A. We are to understand that it contains the revealed will, ^bmysteries,
                and the works of God; the hidden things of his economy concerning this ^cearth
                during the seven thousand years of its continuance, or its temporal existence.
     Q. What are we to understand by the seven ^aseals with which it was sealed?
          - A. We are to understand that the first seal contains the things of the ^bfirst
                thousand years, and the ^csecond also of the second thousand years,
                and so on until the seventh.
     Q. What are we to understand by the sounding of the ^atrumpets, mentioned
          in the 8th chapter of Revelation?
          - A. We are to understand that as God ^bmade the world in six days, and on
                the seventh day he finished his work, and ^csanctified it, and also formed man
                out of the ^ddust of the earth, even so, in the beginning of the seventh thousand
                years will the Lord God ^esanctify the earth, and complete the salvation of man,
                and ^fjudge all things, and shall ^gredeem all things, except that which he hath not
                put into his power, when he shall have sealed all things, unto the end of all things;
                and the sounding of the trumpets of the seven angels are the preparing
                and finishing of his work, in the beginning of the seventh thousand years—
                the ^hpreparing of the way before the time of his coming.

B.  BOOK OF REVELATION:
     Bruce R. McConkie, "Understanding the Book of Revelation,"
     Ensign, Sept. 1975, 85
     Howard W. Hunter, "No Man Shall Add to or Take Away,"
     Ensign, May 1981, 64
     "Book of Revelation Overview,"
     Ensign, Oct. 1983, 50
     Gerald N. Lund, "Seeing the Book of Revelation As a Book of Revelation,"
     Ensign, Dec. 1987, 46

C.  Doctrine and Covenants - Section 77
     Doctrine and Covenants - Section 116

D.  Faith: Lectures on Faith
     "... A religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things, never has
     power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation; ..."

E.  Pearl of Great Price - Moses 5
     Pearl of Great Price - Moses 6

F.  GENERAL AUTHORITIES:
     Eldred G. Smith, "Family Research,"
     Ensign, Nov. 1975, 106   Elder Eldred G. Smith - Patriarch to the Church
     Spencer W. Kimball, "The Blessings and Responsibilities of Womanhood,"
     Ensign, Mar. 1976, 70
     Boyd K. Packer, "The Pattern of Our Parentage,"
     Ensign, Nov. 1984, 66
     "The Lamb Slain from the Foundation of the World",
     Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Harold B. Lee (2002), 20.

G.  BIBLE SOURCES:
     - Bibliographic Introduction to Old Testament Study
     - Navigating the BIBLE ® II
       People, places, plants and animals occurring in the Bible.
     - Bible and Biblical Resources
       Compare parallel translations of books in assorted Bibles.
     - Tanakh
       Acronym that identifies the Hebrew Bible.
     - Works of Flavius Josephus

H.  Genealogies of the Bible: A Neglected Subject
     - Bible Dictionary: Genealogy
     - Books of the Bible
     - Chronological Tables
     - Joseph Smith, Jr.: Translation of the Bible
       Validation of the Bible as a primary source document
       is made by this translation.  Words added restore the
       original formation and sense of the ancient scribes;
       adding technical details from OT Genesis to NT Revelation.

I.   Eleazar Ben Asher Ha-Levi, was a Medieval collector of ancient record
     sources, "who lived somewhere in the Rhine Provinces at the end of the
     thirteenth and the beginning of the fourteenth century."  Moses Gaster, Ph.D.,
     translated the first part of this Bodleian Library (Oxford) ms., titled:
     Sepher Ha-Zikhronot.  There are minute descriptions of the descendants
     of Noah and the records state exactly how many children each of the Patriarchs
     had, beginning with Adam and Eve, including names of the wives of each of
     the Biblical personages.  For example, "Adam begat three sons and three
     daughters, Cain and his twin wife Qalmana, Abel and his twin wife Deborah,
     and Seth and his twin wife Noba.  [special markings not included]  And Adam,
     after he had begotten Seth, lived 700 years, and there were eleven sons
     and eight daughters born to him.  These are the names of his sons:
     'Eli, Sheel, Surei, 'Almiel, Berokh, Ke'al, Nahath, Zarhamah, Sisha, Mahtel
     and 'Anat . . .and the names of his daughters are: Havah, Gitsh, Hare, Bikha,
     Zifath, Hekhiah, Shaba, and 'Azin."



004:   SETH (the son of ADAM)

Family of Seth:
Seth
Marriage:

The Children of 004: Seth
004-001:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 005: ENOS
004-002:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (sons-) 005: BOOK -
                  Gen. 5: 7  Moses 6: 14  Many other sons.
004-003:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (daus-) 005: BOOK -
                  Gen. 5: 7  Moses 6: 14  Many other daughters.
Family Information:
geography (location):
D&C 107: 53  Called to gathering of Adam's posterity at Adam-ondi-Ahman,
located in Missouri, USA, now part of the North American continent.

life:
Seth  D&C 107: 43  Seth was a ^aperfect man, and his ^blikeness was the
express likeness of his father, insomuch that he seemed to be like unto his
father Adam in all things, and could be distinguished from him only by his age.

religion:
D&C 107: 42  Seth was ^bordained by Adam at the age of sixty-nine years, and
was blessed by him three years previous to his (Adam's) death, and received
the promise of God by his father, that his posterity should be the chosen of the
Lord, and that they should be ^cpreserved unto the end of the earth.
D&C 107: 53  Seth was a High Priest D&C 107: 3 in the ^aHoly Priesthood,
after the ^bOrder of the Son of God.

time period:  3870 B.C. to 2958 B.C.
Adam was 130 years old when Seth was born (Gen. 5:3).  Seth was 105 when
Enos was born (Gen. 5:6).  Seth was 800 years old when Adam died.  Seth
lived after he begat Enos 807 years, making him 912 years old at his death
(Gen. 5:7-8).  Seth died in the 1042nd year of the world.

Research Notes:



005:   ENOS (the son of SETH)

Family of Enos:
Enos
Marriage:

The Children of 005: Enos
005-001:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 006: CAINAN - KENAN
005-002:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (sons-) 006: BOOK -
                  Gen. 5: 10  Moses 6: 18  Many other sons.
005-003:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (daus-) 006: BOOK -
                  Gen. 5: 10  Moses 6: 18  Many other daughters.
Family Information:
geography (location):
Moses 6: 17  And Enos and the residue of the people of God came out from
the land, which was called Shulon, and dwelt in a land of promise, which he called
after his own son, whom he had named ^bCainan.  D&C 107: 53  Enos met with
Adam's posterity at Adam-ondi-Ahman, located in Missouri, USA, now part of
the North American continent.

life:
Enos

religion:
D&C 107: 44  Enos was ordained at the age of one hundred and thirty-four
years and four months, by the hand of Adam.
D&C 107: 53  Enos was a High Priest D&C 107: 3 in the ^aHoly Priesthood,
after the ^bOrder of the Son of God.

time period:  3765 B.C. to 2860 B.C.
Seth was 105 when Enos was born (Gen. 5:6).  Enos was 90 when Cainan
was born (Gen. 5:9).  Enos was 695 years old when Adam died.  And Enos
lived after he begat Cainan 815 years, making him 905 years old when he
died (Gen. 5:10-11).

Research Notes:



006:   CAINAN - KENAN (the son of ENOS)

Family of Cainan - Kenan:
Kenan
Marriage:

The Children of 006: Cainan - Kenan
006-001:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 007: MAHALALEEL
006-002:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (sons-) 007: BOOK -
                  Gen. 5: 13  Moses 6: 19  Other sons.
006-003:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (daus-) 007: BOOK -
                  Gen. 5: 13  Moses 6: 19  Other daughters.
Family Information:
geography (location):
Cainan met Adam in journeying to the place Shedolamak.  D&C 107: 53
The land of Cainan was by the sea east; Cainhannoch was a code name for
"New York", used during the time of persecution and hiding in early Church
history.  Cainan met with Adam's posterity at Adam-ondi-Ahman, located in
Missouri, USA, part of the North American continent.

life:
Cainan

religion:
D&C 107: 45  God called upon Cainan in the wilderness in the fortieth year
of his age; and he met Adam in journeying to the place Shedolamak.  He was
eighty-seven years old when he received his ordination.
D&C 107: 53  Cainan was a High Priest D&C 107: 3 in the ^aHoly Priesthood,
after the ^bOrder of the Son of God.

time period:  3675 B.C. to 2765 B.C.
Enos was 90 when Cainan was born (Gen. 5:9).  Cainan was 70 when
Mahalaleel was born (Gen. 5:12).  Cainan was 605 years old when Adam
died.  And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel 840 years, making him
910 years old at his death (Gen. 5:13-14).

Research Notes:
A.  Book of Jasher
     The question arises of how the author of Jasher could have known
     specific facts from before the Great Flood, such as Cainan becoming
     very wise when he was forty years old.  These correlations attest that
     it was composed from exceedingly ancient reliable sources.



007:   MAHALALEEL (the son of CAINAN - KENAN)

Family of Mahalaleel:
Mahalalel
Marriage:

The Children of 007: Mahalaleel
007-001:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 008: JARED
007-002:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (sons-) 008: BOOK -
                  Gen. 5: 16  Moses 6: 20  Other sons.
007-003:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (daus-) 008: BOOK -
                  Gen. 5: 16  Moses 6: 20  Other daughters.
Family Information:
geography (location):
D&C 107: 53  Mahalaleel met with Adam's posterity at Adam-ondi-Ahman,
located in Missouri, USA, now part of the North American continent.

life:
Mahalaleel

religion:
D&C 107: 46  Mahalaleel was four hundred and ninety-six years and seven
days old when he was ordained by the hand of Adam, who also blessed him.
D&C 107: 53  Mahalaleel was a High Priest D&C 107: 3 in the ^aHoly Priesthood,
after the ^bOrder of the Son of God.

time period:  3605 B.C. to 2710 B.C.
Cainan was 70 when Mahalaleel was born (Gen. 5:12).  Mahalaleel was 65
when Jared was born (Gen. 5:15).  Mahalaleel was 535 years old when Adam
died.  And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared 830 years, making him 895
years old when he died (Gen. 5: 16-17).

Research Notes:



008:   JARED (the son of MAHALALEEL)

Family of Jared:
Jared
Marriage:

The Children of 008: Jared
008-001:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 009: ENOCH
008-002:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (sons-) 009: BOOK -
                  Gen. 5: 19  Moses 6: 21  Other sons.
008-003:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (daus-) 009: BOOK -
                  Gen. 5: 19  Moses 6: 21  Other daughters.
Family Information:
geography (location):
D&C 107: 53  Jared met with Adam's posterity at Adam-ondi-Ahman,
located in Missouri, USA, now part of the North American continent.

life:
Jared

religion:
D&C 107: 47  Jared was two hundred years old when he was ordained
under the hand of Adam, who also blessed him.  Jared ^btaught Enoch
in all the ways of God.
D&C 107: 53  Jared was a High Priest D&C 107: 3 in the ^aHoly Priesthood,
after the ^bOrder of the Son of God.

time period:  3540 B.C. to 2578 B.C.
Mahalaleel was 65 when Jared was born (Gen. 5:15).  Jared was 162
when Enoch was born (Gen. 5:18).  Jared was 470 years old when Adam
died.  And Jared lived after he begat Enoch 800 years, making him 962
years old at his death (Gen. 5:19-20).

Research Notes:



009:   ENOCH (the son of JARED)

Family of Enoch:
Enoch
Marriage:

The Children of 009: Enoch
009-001:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 010: METHUSELAH
009-002:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (sons-) 010: BOOK -
                  Gen. 5: 22  Other sons.
009-003:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (daus-) 010: BOOK -
                  Gen. 5: 22  Other daughters.
Family Information:
geography (location):
D&C 107: 53  Enoch came out from the land of ^aCainan, the land of his fathers,
which was a land of ^brighteousness in his day.   Enoch journeyed from the land
of Cainan, by the sea east.   Cainhannoch was a code name for "New York",
used during the time of persecution and hiding in early Church history.  Enoch
stood upon the place Mahujah and went to the mount ^aSimeon.  From there,
Enoch beheld in the valley of Shum a great people which dwelt in ^atents, which
were the people of Shum.  Enoch looked towards the north of mount Simeon
and beheld the people of ^aCanaan, which dwelt in tents.  Enoch saw the people
of Canaan in a land barren and unfruitful, cursed with much heat and perpetual
^bbarrenness.  Enoch beheld the land of Sharon, and the land of Enoch, and the
land of Omner, and the land of Heni, and the land of Shem, and the land of Haner,
and the land of Hanannihah, and all of their inhabitants.  There was a land that
came up out of the depth of the sea, in the time of Enoch.  There were mountains
and high places in the time of Enoch.  Enoch built a city that was called the City
of Holiness, even ZION.  Enoch met with Adam's posterity at Adam-ondi-Ahman,
located in Missouri, USA, now part of the North American continent.

life:
Enoch  Moses 7: 13  And so great was the ^afaith of Enoch that he led the people
of God, and their enemies came to battle against them; and he ^bspake the word
of the Lord, and the earth trembled, and the ^cmountains fled, even according
to his command; and the ^drivers of water were turned out of their course; and
the roar of the lions was heard out of the wilderness; and all nations feared
greatly, so ^epowerful was the word of Enoch, and so great was the power of
the language which God had given him.  Enoch  There were ^agiants of the
land, during the time of Enoch, and a ^bcurse went forth upon all people that
fought against God.  This appears as the initial time frame for the development
and mutation of dinosaurs and other distorted, abnormally deformed creatures,
including a blackness that came upon all of the children of Canaan.  Moses 7: 22
And Enoch also beheld the residue of the people which were the sons of Adam;
and they were a mixture of all the seed of Adam save it was the seed of Cain,
for the seed of Cain were black, and had not place among them.  God cursed
the   ^bresidue of the people during the time of the City of Enoch, and the power
of Satan was upon all the face of the earth, except for a few select righteous
posterity that survived until the time of Noah.

Residents of the City of Holiness, even ZION.  D&C 107: 57
These things were all written in the book of ^aEnoch, and are to
be testified of in due time.  Moses 7: 67  And the Lord showed
Enoch all things, even unto the end of the world; and he saw the
day of the righteous, the hour of their redemption, and received
a fulness of ^ajoy . . .

religion:
D&C 107: 48  ^aEnoch was twenty-five years old when he was
ordained under the hand of Adam; and he was sixty-five and Adam
blessed him.  Moses 7: 19  And Enoch continued his preaching in
righteousness unto the people of God.  And it came to pass in his days,
that he built a city that was called the City of Holiness, even ZION.
Moses 7: 21  And it came to pass that the Lord showed unto Enoch
all the inhabitants of the earth; and he beheld, and lo, ^aZion, in process
of time, was ^btaken up into heaven.  And the Lord said unto Enoch:
Behold mine abode forever.  Moses 7: 69  And Enoch and all his people
^awalked with God, and he dwelt in the midst of Zion; and it came to pass
that Zion was not, for God received it up into his own bosom; and from
thence went forth the saying, ZION IS FLED.
D&C 107: 53  Enoch was a High Priest D&C 107: 3 in the ^aHoly Priesthood,
after the ^bOrder of the Son of God.

time period:  3378 B.C. until translated 2948 B.C.
Jared was 162 when Enoch was born (Gen. 5:18).  Enoch was 65 when
Methuselah was born (Gen. 5:21).  Enoch was 308 years old when Adam
died.  And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah 300 years,
making him 365 years old [D&C 107: 49 and he walked with God
three hundred and sixty-five years, making him four hundred and thirty
years old] when he was translated (King James Version Gen. 5:22-23).
NOTE: According to The Pearl of Great Price (Moses 7:68  And all of
the days of ZION, in the days of Enoch, were three hundred
and sixty-five years.)

Research Notes:



010:   METHUSELAH (the son of ENOCH)

Family of Methuselah:
Methuselah
Marriage:

The Children of 010: Methuselah
010-001:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 011: LAMECH
010-002:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (sons-) 011: BOOK -
                  Gen. 5: 26  Moses 8: 6  Other sons.
010-003:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (daus-) 011: BOOK -
                  Gen. 5: 26  Moses 8: 6  Other daughters.
Family Information:
geography (location):
There came forth a great ^afamine into the land, during the time
that Methuselah lived, and the Lord ^bcursed the earth with a sore
curse, and many of the inhabitants thereof died.  D&C 107: 53
Methuselah met with Adam's posterity at Adam-ondi-Ahman,
located in Missouri, USA, now part of the North American continent.

life:
Methuselah  Moses 8: 2  And it came to pass that Methuselah, the son
of Enoch, was ^anot taken, that the covenants of the Lord might be fulfilled,
which he made to Enoch; for he truly covenanted with Enoch that Noah
should be of the fruit of his loins.

religion:
D&C 107: 50  Methuselah was one hundred years old when he
was ordained under the hand of Adam.  D&C 107: 52  Noah was
ten years old when he was ^aordained under the hand of Methuselah.
D&C 107: 53  Methuselah was a High Priest D&C 107: 3 in the ^aHoly Priesthood,
after the ^bOrder of the Son of God.

time period:  3313 B.C. to 2344 B.C.
Enoch was 65 when Methuselah was born (Gen. 5:21).  Methuselah
was 187 when Lamech was born (Gen. 5:25).  Methuselah was 243
years old when Adam died.  And Methuselah lived after he begat
Lamech 782 years, making him 969 years old when he died (Gen. 5:26-27).

Research Notes:
A.  Did People like Adam and Noah really live over 900 years of age?

B.  WHY did people live longer BEFORE Noah's Flood than they did after it?



011:   LAMECH (the son of METHUSELAH)

Family of Lamech:
Lamech
Marriage:

The Children of 011: Lamech
011-001:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 012: NOAH
011-002:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (sons-) 012: BOOK -
                  Gen. 5: 30  Moses 8: 10  Other sons.
011-003:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (daus-) 012: BOOK -
                  Gen. 5: 30  Moses 8: 10  Other daughters.
Family Information:
geography (location):

life:
Lamech

religion:
D&C 107: 51  Lamech was thirty-two years old
when he was ordained under the hand of Seth.
D&C 84: 14-15  Lamech was an ^bevangelical minister, a Patriarch
in the ^aHoly Priesthood, after the ^bOrder of the Son of God.

time period:  3126 B.C. to 2349 B.C.
Methuselah was 187 when Lamech was born (Gen. 5:25).  Lamech was
182 when Noah was born (Gen. 5:28).  Lamech, the 9th from Adam,
and the father of Noah, was 56 years old when Adam died.  Lamech
lived after he begat Noah 595 years, making him 777 years old when
he died (Gen. 5:30-31).

Research Notes:



012:   NOAH (the son of LAMECH)

Family of Noah:
Noah
Marriage:
Wives aboard Noah's Ark (secondary source information)

The Children of 012: Noah
012-001:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 013: BOOK - Japheth (Japhetic),
                  who was born in 2494 B.C.; by whose posterity Gen. 10: 5
                  the ^bisles of the ^cGentiles divided in their ^dlands; every one
                  after his tongue, after their ^efamilies, in their nations.  Sons
                  of Japheth were born after the Flood  Gen. 10: 1.
012-002:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 013: SHEM,
                  who was born in 2452 B.C.
012-003:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 013: BOOK - Ham (Hamitic), born
                  2444 B.C., was [Abr. 1: 23-25] the husband of Egyptus.  Sons
                  of Ham and Egyptus were born after the Flood  Gen. 10: 1. Their
                  daughter, also named Egyptus, was the "Mother of the King":
                  Pharaoh, who began the Patriarchal Royalty of the Pharaohs
                  of Egypt.  The worldwide Flood [2344 B.C.], wiped out all previous
                  settlements in the Nile valley.  The first stone ('Step Pyramid')
                  built in Egypt, is either the remains of a pre flood building; or,
                  a constructed pyramid, begun no earlier than the time of the first
                  Pharaoh, the grandson of Ham, circa 2300 B.C.  Egyptian Royalty
                  timelines of Ancient Egypt, as shown by The British Museum,
                  are extrapolated, disjointed and controversial reconstructions
                  of surviving Egyptian dynastic records, having no genealogical
                  credibility.  Ham was [Gen. 10: 6-10] also the father of ^bCush,
                  who begat ^aNimrod, the beginning of the Kingdom of ^aBabel,
                  founded circa 2300 B.C.  Nimrod's tribal customs evolved into
                  city law (Code of Hammurabi) for the metropolis of Babylon.
                  The language taught by Noah to his posterity, was distorted
                  during the construction of the first Tower of Babel.  Secret signs,
                  developed to identify groups of individuals, (within the different
                  classes of workers having various levels of skills required in
                  building the complex structure), could have initiated confusion,
                  with disagreement and labor unrest concerning any unequal work
                  compensation.  God, by the withdrawal of His spirit, caused the
                  scattering of the posterity of Japheth.  The Book of Mormon,
                  (another Testament of Jesus Christ), in Ether 1: 6-37, confirms
                  migration of families returning back to the Western Hemisphere:
                  Jared and his family, along with the family of his righteous brother
                  Mahonri Moriancumer; with some others and their families.
                  This occurred after the days of PELEG (time period:  2253 B.C.
                  to 2014 B.C.), in whose days the earth was divided (Gen. 10: 25).
                  REFERENCES:
                  - List of Ancient Legal Codes
                  - Third Jaredite Record: The Sealed Portion of the Gold Plates
                  - Years of the Jaredites
Family Information:
Sons of Noah

geography (location):
Flood Legends from Around the World . . . "The Cornish Tynners
hold a strong imagination, that in the withdrawing of Noahs floud
to the Sea, the same took his course from East to West, violently
breaking vp, and forcibly carrying with it, the earth, trees, and
Rocks, which lay any thing loosely, neere the vpper face of the
ground.  To confirme the likelihood of which supposed truth, they
doe many times digge vp whole and huge Timber trees which they
conceiue at that deluge to haue beene ouerturned and whelmed:"
Ether 13: 2  Confirms as fact that the Flood was worldwide in scope.
From the Book of Mormon, after the waters had ^areceded from off the
face of this ^bland (North and South America), it became a choice land
above all other lands, a chosen land of the Lord; wherefore the Lord
would have that all men should ^cserve him who dwell upon the face thereof.
In a wider sense all of North and South America are Zion (HC 6: 318-19).
Moses 7: 43  Wherefore Enoch saw that Noah built an ^aark; and that
the Lord smiled upon it, and held it in his own hand; but upon the residue
of the wicked the ^bfloods came and swallowed them up.

life:
Noah: Ark of Noah, Noah's Ark and rainbow that was set in Heaven.

religion:
Bible Patriarch Noah  D&C 107: 52  Noah was ten years old when
he was ^aordained under the hand of Methuselah.  Appeared after
death as the Angel Gabriel.  D&C 84: 14-15  Noah was a High Priest
in the ^aHoly Priesthood, after the ^bOrder of the Son of God.

time period:  2944 B.C. to 1994 B.C.
Lamech was 182 when Noah was born (Gen. 5:28).  Moses 8: 12  And Noah
was four hundred and fifty years old, and ^abegat Japheth; and forty-two
years afterward he begat ^bShem of her who was the mother of Japheth,
and when he was five hundred years old he begat ^cHam.  And Noah was
^asix hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
[2344 B.C.]  Archbishop James Ussher calculated the Flood date: 2349 B.C.
Moses informs us that Noah lived after the flood 350 years; making him
950 years old when he died (Gen. 9:28-29).  Noah was 84 years old when
Enos died, 176 when Cainan died, 234 when Mahalaleel died, 366 when
Jared died, 595 when Lamech died, and 600 when Methuselah died.  We
can see from this that Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Methuselah,
Lamech, and Noah all lived on the earth at the same time; and that Enos,
Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Methuselah and Lamech, were all acquainted
with both Adam and Noah.

Research Notes:
A.  Louis Bourguet (1678-1742), listed in Dictionary of Scientific Biography,
     Vol. XV, published by the American Council of Learned Societies, made a
     philological investigation of the Etruscan alphabet (ancient pre-Roman Italy),
     and was convinced it derived from ancient Hebrew.  He studied Hebrew and
     the Mishnah with a Rabbi.  Louis Bourguet believed in the common origin of
     all peoples and languages and questioned the presumed great age and isolation
     of the people of China.  He declared that the great world wide Flood was but
     the amplification of normal processes and the "exceptional convergence,
     ordained by God, of ordinary causes."  Louis Bourguet explored fossil sites
     throughout Europe, suggesting they were from animal and vegetable origins.
     The Testimony of Archaeology notes: "Both the Hebrew, the Samaritan,
     the Greek writings current in Palestine during the two centuries before
     Christ, and the old Babylonian traditions, assert a transmission of writings
     about creation down from the beginning of time to Enoch and Noah."
     The kept genealogical pedigrees therefore suggest language origination
     and later distortions of a pure universal language that began to fragment
     with population movements and family group isolation, in the time period
     of circa 2944 B.C. to 1994 B.C. and later.  This is what credible written
     evidence suggests, within the created and preserved ancient genealogies.

B.  Biblical statements concerning the earth being corrupt, with all flesh
     upon the earth being corrupted, are mentioned during the time of the
     Patriarch Noah, 2944 to 1994 B.C.  There were giants on the earth
     in those days that attempted to take away the life of Noah, indicating
     from Holy Scripture, the time frame for the worldwide culmination of
     the development and mutation of dinosaurs, plants and other distorted,
     abnormally deformed creatures.  The Flood At Noah’s Time appears as
     a gift from God, a baptism of the whole earth, to save all mankind and
     all flesh also, from genetic destruction and deformed mutations.

     "There is definite evidence that at one time, and I am convinced it
     was in antediluvian days since the time of Adam, the climate of the
     earth was just as Elder Parley P. Pratt and President John Taylor
     have described it.  Evidence is found in the Arctic that tropical, or
     semi-tropical plants, grew there in abundance.  The frozen animals
     spoken of by Sir Henry H. Howorth were frozen at the time of the
     flood when the climatic conditions of the earth were changed . . . ."

     The journal Nature news, published online on 31 May 2006, notes
     that a "core of sediment pulled from the bottom of the Arctic Ocean
     has confirmed" (that at some period in the past), "the North Pole
     was as warm as a balmy summer day." . . . "it also seems that the
     North Pole began to cool at about the same time as the Antarctic.
     This timing suggests that climate was being driven by a global factor,
     such as atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases, rather than some-
     thing more local, such as geological upheaval."  . . . "the atmosphere
     at the time was exceptionally rich in greenhouse gases . . . amplified
     by an additional factor — possibly heat-trapping stratospheric clouds
     or hurricane-induced ocean mixing."  Excluding the incorrect time
     periods, scientific confirmation is given of an abrupt worldwide Flood.
     CBS SCI-TECH online News, 31 May 2006, includes: "Imagine a world
     where there are dense sequoia trees and cypress trees like in Florida
     that ring the Arctic Ocean . . . Researchers are not sure what caused
     the sudden boost of carbon dioxide that set the greenhouse effect on
     broil.  Possible culprits could be huge releases of methane from the
     ocean, gigantic continent-sized burning of trees, or lots of volcanic
     eruptions. "

     "We are led to believe, then, that in the beginning the mountains
     were not as high as they are now . . . When the valleys are exalted
     it will be the natural result of the mountains being debased or made
     low.  In this way the earth will be restored to its primitive condition."
     (Man: His Origin and Destiny, 422-423, by Joseph Fielding Smith.

     All human society was without affection, and they ^bhated their own blood.
     Among all the workmanship of God's hands, there has never been such
     great ^bwickedness.  The ^asons of God saw the daughters of men, that they
     were fair; and they ^btook them ^cwives of all which they chose.  In other
     words, men who were baptized into the ancient church, rejected their own
     priesthood responsibilities, intentionally marrying wives with attractive,
     physical beauty, that were spiritually devoid of faith in God.

C.  World Population Since Creation
     " . . . Even if we use rates appropriate for the present world (x = 1 and C = 1.5),
     over 3 billion people could easily have been on the earth at the time of Noah."

D.  The Revision of Ancient History: Revised Chronologies

E.  Anderson, James. Royal Genealogies: or, The Genealogical Tables
     of Emperors, Kings and Princes, from Adam to These Times. London:
     James Bettenham, 1732. [available in a microform edition]  Under Table II.
     The PATRIARCHS after the flood of the Line of Japhet, mention is made
     of Japhet's son Gomer, the father of Riphath . . . from whom afterwards came
     the Colonies . . . that first inhabited Great Britain and Ireland . . .  Mention is
     also made of Japhet's son Javan, the father of Dodanim or Rodanim, who
     dwelt in the south and east of France.  The Chronicles of Jerahmeel, page 58,
     notes "And Faneg, son of Dodanim, was the first to ride the ships of the sea";
     the children of Dodanim, Iteb, Beath, and Faneg.  Milesian ancestrial records
     show Magog, not Dodanim, as the father of Baath, Jobhath and Fathochta.
     It is obvious some creative individual (s) in the past, tried to establish Biblical
     connections to Ireland's historical records, using apparent Irish pedigree names.
     External evidence from non Irish sources, historically compared with the ancient
     Irish pedigree's internal evidence, eliminates earlier Japhetic connections.
     A study of Irish source records, includes the "Line of Heremon", from Baoth
     to Milesius, which appears in fact as an anti-Semitic rewriting of Biblical text,
     using Bible analogy into a "gentile" pedigree; such as "In his youth Gaodhal
     was stung in the neck by a serpent and was immediately brought to Moses,
     who by laying his rod upon the wounded place instantly cured him . . ."  Niul
     being "invited into Egypt by Pharaoh the King; who gave him the land of Campus
     Cyruset, near the Red Sea, to inhabit" is an apparent rerun of Abraham going
     down into Egypt.  This carries down in the recorded pedigree of Lamhfionn, for
     "Ireland, which was the place destined for their future and lasting abode and
     settlement; and that not they but their posterity after three hundred years should
     arrive there."  Thus, a disjointed rewrite of Abraham's journey and promise to
     him and his posterity, to possess the land of Canaan, to which they later returned,
     or the Exodus when Moses was 80 years old.

F.  Table of Nations by Tim Osterholm
     Acts 17: 26  And hath ^amade of ^bone ^cblood ^dall ^enations of men for to dwell
     on all the face of the earth, and hath ^fdetermined the ^gtimes before ^happointed,
     and the ⁱbounds of their habitation; . . .

G.   List of Names for the Biblical Nameless (secondary source information)



013:   SHEM (the son of NOAH)

Family of Shem:
Shem (Semitic)
Marriage:
Wives aboard Noah's Ark (secondary source information)

The Children of 013: Shem
013-001:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 014: BOOK - Elam
                  Elam was not established before the Flood: 2344 B.C.
                  Jer. 49: 36  And upon Elam will I bring the four winds
                  from the four ^aquarters of heaven, and will scatter them
                  toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither
                  the outcasts of Elam shall not come.  Ezek. 32: 24  There is
                  ^aElam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them
                  slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised
                  into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in
                  the land of the living; yet have they borne their ^bshame with
                  them that go down to the pit.  Modern day Iran and Khūzestān Province.
013-002:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 014: BOOK - Ashur
                  Gen. 10: 11  Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded
                  Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, And Resen
                  between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.  Assur
                  and Assyria were not established before the Flood: 2344 B.C.
013-003:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 014: ARPHAXAD
013-004:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 014: BOOK - Lud
013-005:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 014: BOOK - Aram,
                  the father of sons: Uz, Hul, Gether and Mash - Meshech.
                  Their posterity became established after the Flood: 2344 B.C.
                  The Aramaic language evolved later among descendants.
013-006:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (sons-) 014: BOOK -
                  Gen. 11: 11  Other sons born after the Flood  Gen. 10: 1.
                  Gen. 10: 21  Unto Shem were children born.
013-007:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (daus-) 014: BOOK -
                  Gen. 11: 11  Other daughters born after the Flood.
                  Gen. 10: 21  Unto Shem were children born.
Family Information:
geography (location):
Morm. 2: 20 And it came to pass that in this year the people of Nephi
again were hunted and driven.  And it came to pass that we were driven
forth until we had come northward to the land which was called Shem.
Enoch, born 3378 B.C., went to the mount ^aSimeon.  From there, Enoch
beheld the land of Shem.  These records indicate that Shem was born on
a portion of the North American Continent, in 2452 B.C., one hundred
and eight years prior to the world wide flood in 2344 B.C.  As a child,
Shem, the great High Priest, feared God.  After Enoch lived sixty-five
years, and begat Methuselah, he stated to God that he was but a lad;
indicating similar age identification for: "as a child" (Moses 6: 31).

life:
Shem: the great high priest, seen among mighty ones in spirit world.

religion:
Now Melchizedek was a man of faith, who wrought righteousness;
and when a child he feared God, and stopped the mouths of lions, and
quenched the violence of fire.  And thus, having been approved of God,
he was ordained an high priest after the order of the covenant which
God made with Enoch.  Shem, the great pre/post flood High Priest heir
of Noah, was ordained an high priest after the order of the covenant
which God made with the pre-flood High Priest Enoch; for as a child,
Shem feared God.  Shem stopped the mouths of lions, and quenched
the violence of fire, prior to the Flood, since after the Flood there was
no general wickedness left and there was only a minimal number of
lions remaining upon the earth.

Worthy Melchizedek priesthood holders obtain the key of knowledge:
the fullness of the Scriptures.  D&C 84: 19  And this greater ^apriesthood
administereth the gospel and holdeth the ^bkey of the ^cmysteries of
the kingdom, even the key of the ^dknowledge of God.  D&C 128: 11
Now the great and grand secret of the whole matter, and the summum
bonum of the whole subject that is lying before us, consists in obtaining
the ^apowers of the Holy Priesthood.  For him to whom these keys are
given there is no difficulty in obtaining a ^bknowledge of facts in relation
to the ^csalvation of the children of men, both as well for the dead as for
the living.  D&C 107: 2-4  ^{. . .   b}Melchizedek was such a great high priest.
Before his day it was called the ^aHoly Priesthood, after the ^bOrder^• of
the Son of God.  But out of ^arespect or ^breverence to the name of the
Supreme Being, to avoid the too frequent repetition of his name, they,
the church, in ancient days, called that priesthood after Melchizedek, or
the Melchizedek Priesthood.  JST Gen. 14: 25-40  And this Melchizedek,
having thus established righteousness, was called the King of Heaven
[GOD] by his people, or, in other words, the King of Peace [GOD]; in
the similitude of Jesus Christ: the Messiah - Psalm 110.

time period:  2452 B.C. to 1852 B.C.
Moses 8: 12  And Noah was four hundred and fifty years old,
and ^abegat Japheth; and forty-two years afterward he begat ^bShem
of her who was the mother of Japheth, and when he was five hundred
years old he begat ^cHam.  And Noah was ^asix hundred years old when
the flood of waters was upon the earth. [2344 B.C.]  Noah lived after
the flood 350 years; making him 950 years old when he died
(Gen. 9:28-29).  Shem was 100 years old when Arphaxad was born
(Gen. 11:10).  Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad 500 [years]
(Gen 11:11).  This added to 100 years, which was his age when
Arphaxad was born, makes him 600 years old when he died.

Research Notes:
A.  Shem was Melchizedek.  He received the priesthood through the lineage
     of his fathers, even till Noah; and from Noah till Enoch, through the lineage of
     their fathers; and from Enoch to Abel, who received the priesthood by the hand
     of his father Adam, who was the first man.  Abraham, when speaking of the holy
     priesthood which he obtained from Melchizedek, notes that: "It was ^aconferred
     upon me from the fathers; it came down from the fathers, from the beginning of
     time, yea, even from the beginning, or before the foundation of the earth, down
     to the present time, even the right of the ^bfirstborn, or the first man, who is ^cAdam,
     or first father, through the fathers unto me."  Thus, Melchizedek received his
     priesthood through the lineage of his fathers, even till Noah, [means my priesthood
     came down in time from Adam to Noah, my father]; from Noah till Enoch through
     the lineage of their fathers [means my priesthood lineage descended from Adam
     via Enoch to Noah, my father, through the lineage of their fathers]; for this
     priesthood was received from Enoch to Abel, who received the priesthood by
     the hand of his father Adam.  The priesthood lineage is very clearly recorded:
     a descending pedigree lineage, anciently from the man Adam, to Abel his son,
     (who was a brother of Seth, the son of Adam: the lineage ancestry of Noah).

B.  According to the priesthood records of the patriarchs, Adam ordained Seth,
     Enos, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch and Methuselah.  Lamech, the father of Noah,
     was ordained by Seth, his 5th great-grandfather, in the year 3094 B.C.  Noah
     was ten years old in 2934 B.C., when he was ^aordained under the hand of his
     grandfather Methuselah.  Methuselah was ordained by his 5th great-grandfather
     Adam, in the year 3213 B.C.  Shem (Melchizedek), the great high priest, received
     his priesthood, through the lineage of his father Noah.



014:   ARPHAXAD (the son of SHEM)

Family of Arphaxad:
Arpachshad - Arphaxad
Marriage:

The Children of 014: Arphaxad
014-001:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 015: SALAH - SHELAH
014-002:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (sons-) 015: BOOK -
                  Gen. 11: 13  Other sons.
014-003:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (daus-) 015: BOOK -
                  Gen. 11: 13  Other daughters.
Family Information:
Sons of Noah
Arpachshad's Family  to the genealogy of Abraham.

geography (location):
life:
Arphaxad
religion:
Arphaxad

time period:  2352 B.C. to 1914 B.C.
Noah was ^asix hundred years old [2344 B.C.] when the flood
of waters was upon the earth.  Shem was 100 years old when
Arphaxad was born (Gen. 11:10).  Arphaxad was 35 when Salah
was born (Gen. 11:12).  Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah 403
years (Gen. 11:13).  This added to 35 years, which was his age
when Salah was born, makes him 438 years old when he died.

Research Notes:
A.  According to age dates from The Pearl of Great Price, Arphaxad
     was on the Ark; with Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons
     of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them.
     According to Gen. 11: 10  These are the generations of Shem: Shem
     was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood.
     There is a chronological difference in the records of 10 years.  The earlier
     date of birth: year 2352 B.C., indicates that Shem, the father of Arphaxad,
     was married before he was 92 years of age, which appears reasonable.

B.  Book of Jubilees . . . [Chapter 8]
     . . . Arpachshad [Arphaxad] took to himself a wife and her name
     was Rasu'eja, the daughter of Susan, the daughter of Elam, and she
     bare him a son . . . called . . . Kainam.  And the son grew, and his father
     taught him writing, and he went to seek for himself a place where he
     might seize for himself a city.  And he found a writing which former
     (generations) had carved on the rock, and he read what was thereon,
     and he transcribed it . . . for it contained the teaching of the Watchers
     in accordance with which they used to observe the omens of the sun
     and moon and stars in all the signs of heaven.  And he wrote it down
     . . . he took to himself a wife, and her name was Melka, the daughter
     of Madai, the son of Japheth, . . .  In the Septuagint, Arpachshad's
     son is also called Cainan, making Shelah the grandson of Arpachshad.
     In the New Testament, Luke 3: 35-36  Sala, Which was the son of
     Cainan, which was the son of Arphaxad, which was the son of ^aSem,
     which was the son of Noe, which was the son of Lamech, . . .



015:   SALAH - SHELAH - SHELAH (the son of ARPHAXAD)

Family of Salah - Shelah:
Salah - Shelah
Marriage:

The Children of 015: Salah - Shelah
015-001:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 016: EBER - HEBER
015-002:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (sons-) 016: BOOK -
                  Gen. 11: 15  Other sons.
015-003:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (daus-) 016: BOOK -
                  Gen. 11: 15  Other daughters.
Family Information:
geography (location):
life:
Salah - Shelah
religion:

time period:  2317 B.C. to 1884 B.C.
Arphaxad was 35 when Salah was born (Gen. 11:12).  Salah was 30 when Eber
was born (Gen. 11:14).  Salah lived after he begat Eber 403 years (Gen. 11:15).
This added to 30 years, which was his age when Eber was born, makes him 433
years old when he died.

Research Notes:
A.  According to the Masoretic Text and the Samaritan Torah,
     Salah was the son of Arpachshad, and lived to the age of 433 years.



016:   EBER - HEBER (the son of SALAH - SHELAH)

Family of Eber - Heber:
Eber - Heber
Marriage:

The Children of 016: Eber - Heber
016-001:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 017: PELEG
016-002:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 017: BOOK - Joktan,
                  patriarch of the thirteen Arabian tribes of Joktanites,
                  by Joktan's sons: Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
                  Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, Obal - Ebal, Abimael, Sheba, Ophir,
                  Havilah and Jobab.
016-003:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (sons-) 017: BOOK -
                  Gen. 11: 17  Other sons.
016-004:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (daus-) 017: BOOK -
                  Gen. 11: 17  Other daughters.
Family Information:
Category:Hebraic People: Children of Eber
The name designation of Hebrews
comes from the name: (H)EBER.

geography (location):
life:
Eber - Heber
religion:
Eber - Heber

time period:  2287 B.C. to 1823 B.C.
Salah was 30 when Eber was born (Gen. 11:14).  Eber was 34 when Peleg
was born, in whose days the earth was divided (Gen. 11:16).  Eber lived
after he begat Peleg 430 years (Gen. 11:17).  This added to 34 years, which
was his age when Peleg was born, makes him 464 years old when he died.

Research Notes:
A.  Jewish History Resource Center - Resource Index: Biblical History



017:   PELEG (the son of EBER)

Family of Peleg:
Peleg
Marriage:

The Children of 017: Peleg
017-001:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 018: REU
017-002:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (sons-) 018: BOOK -
                  Gen. 11: 19  Other sons.
017-003:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (daus-) 018: BOOK -
                  Gen. 11: 19  Other daughters.
Family Information:
geography (location):
Dividing of the Earth  And unto Eber were born two sons:
the name of one was ^aPeleg; for in his days was the earth
^bdivided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.

life:
Peleg
religion:

time period:  2253 B.C. to 2014 B.C.
Eber was 34 when Peleg was born, in whose days the earth was divided (Gen. 11:16).
Peleg was 30 when Reu was born (Gen. 11:18).  Peleg lived after he begat Reu 209
years (Gen. 11:19).  This added to 30 years, which was his age when Reu was born,
makes him 239 years old when he died.

Research Notes:
A.  Gen. 10: 25

B.  Presently, there is scientific knowledge about continental drift of the
     earth's land surface around the inner liquid core [Continental Drift, listed
     on page 353, under Plate Tectonics, Academic American Encyclopedia,
     Vol. 15, (1980)].  Hel. 12: 15  And thus, according to his word the ^aearth
     goeth back, and it appeareth unto man that the ^bsun standeth still; yea,
     and behold, this is so; for surely it is the earth that moveth and not the sun.
     As recorded in D&C 133: 21-25, the Lamb of God, (the Only Begotten Son
     Jesus Christ, or Jehovah), shall return to the earth: He shall ^autter his voice
     out of ^bZion, and he shall speak from Jerusalem, and his ^cvoice shall be heard
     among all people; And it shall be a voice as the ^avoice of many waters, and as
     the voice of a great ^bthunder, which shall ^cbreak down the mountains, and the
     valleys shall not be found.  He shall command the great deep, and it shall be
     driven back into the north countries, and the ^aislands shall become one land;
     And the ^aland of Jerusalem and the land of ^bZion shall be turned back into their
     own place, and the ^cearth shall be like as it was in the days before it was ^ddivided.
     And the Lord, even the Savior, shall ^astand in the midst of his people, and shall
       ^breign over all flesh.  This certainly is an indication of an immediate and intensive
     worldwide continental drift.  The land of Zion [Jackson County, Missouri, USA]
     and the land of Jerusalem shall be turned back into their own place, and the earth
     shall be like it was in the days before it was divided [during the days of Peleg,
     2253 to 2014 B.C.].  All geologic formation changes within and on the planet
     earth, have occurred within a limited time period of a few thousand years.

C.  What about Continental Drift?



018:   REU (the son of PELEG)

Family of Reu:
Reu
Marriage:

The Children of 018: Reu
018-001:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 019: SERUG
018-002:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (sons-) 019: BOOK -
                  Gen. 11: 21  Other sons.
018-003:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (daus-) 019: BOOK -
                  Gen. 11: 21  Other daughters.
Family Information:
geography (location):
life:
Reu
religion:

time period:  2223 B.C. to 1984 B.C.
Peleg was 30 when Reu was born (Gen. 11:18).  Reu was 32 when Serug
was born (Gen. 11:20).  Reu lived after he begat Serug 207 years (Gen. 11:21).
This added to 32 years, which was his age when Serug was born, makes him
239 years old when he died.

Research Notes:



019:   SERUG (the son of REU)

Family of Serug:
Serug
Marriage:

The Children of 019: Serug
019-001:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 020: NAHOR
019-002:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (sons-) 020: BOOK -
                  Gen. 11: 23  Other sons.
019-003:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (daus-) 020: BOOK -
                  Gen. 11: 23  Other daughters.
Family Information:
geography (location):
life:
Serug
religion:

time period:  2191 B.C. to 1961 B.C.
Reu was 32 when Serug was born (Gen. 11:20).  Serug was 30 when Nahor
was born (Gen. 11:22).  Serug lived after he begat Nahor 200 years (Gen. 11:23).
This added to 30 years,which was his age when Nahor was born, makes him 230
years old when he died.

Research Notes:



020:   NAHOR (the son of SERUG)

Family of Nahor:
Nahor
Marriage:

The Children of 020: Nahor
020-001:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 021: TERAH
020-002:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (sons-) 021: BOOK -
                  Gen. 11: 25  Other sons.
020-003:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (daus-) 021: BOOK -
                  Gen. 11: 25  Other daughters.
Family Information:
geography (location):
Nahor's son Terah lived at Ur Kaśdim.

life:
Nahor
religion:
Nahor

time period:  2161 B.C. to 2013 B.C.
Serug was 30 when Nahor was born (Gen. 11:22).  Nahor was 29 when
Terah was born (Gen. 11:24).  Nahor lived after he begat Terah 119 years
(Gen. 11:25).  This added to 29 years, which was his age when Terah was
born, makes him 148 years old when he died.

Research Notes:



021:   TERAH (the son of NAHOR)

Family of Terah:
Terah
Marriage:

The Children of 021: Terah
021-001:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 022: ABRAHAM - ABRAM
021-002:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 022: BOOK - Nahor,
                  resident of Haran; married to Milcah and concubine Reumah.
                  Listed sons: Huz, Buz, Kemuel, Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph,
                  Bethuel; Tebah, Gaham, Thahash and Maachah.
021-003:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 022: BOOK - Haran,
                  born and died in land of his nativity, in Ur of the ^aChaldees.
Family Information:
Resident of Ur Kaśdim.

geography (location):
Abr. 2: 1-5  Now the Lord God caused the ^afamine to wax sore
in the land of Ur, insomuch that ^bHaran, my brother, died; but ^cTerah,
my father, yet lived in the land of Ur, of the Chaldees. . . . Therefore I
left the land of ^aUr, of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and
I took Lot, my brother's son, and his wife, and Sarai my wife; and also
my ^bfather followed after me, unto the land which we denominated Haran.
And the famine abated; and my father tarried in Haran and dwelt there,
as there were many flocks in Haran; and my father turned again unto
his ^aidolatry, therefore he continued in Haran.

life:
Terah
religion:
Terah

time period:  2132 B.C. to 1987/1927 B.C.
Nahor was 29 when Terah was born (Gen. 11:24).  Terah was 70 when
Haran and Abraham were born (Gen. 11:26).  Some have supposed that
Abraham was not born until Terah was 130 years old.  This conclusion
is drawn from a variety of scriptures.  Terah was 70/130 years old when
Abraham was born, and is supposed to have lived 75 years after his birth,
making him 145/205 years old when he died in Haran.

Research Notes:



022:   ABRAHAM - ABRAM (the son of TERAH)

Family of Abraham - Abram:
Abraham

Marriages:  Abr. 2: 14-15  Abraham was ^asixty and two years old when
he departed out of Haran, with Sarai [Sarah] his wife, [10 years younger
than Abraham - Abram], whom he married when in Ur, in Chaldea, or
before 2000/1940 B.C.  Gen. 23: 2  And Sarah ^adied in Kirjath-arba;
the same is ^bHebron in the land of Canaan:  Gen. 23: 19  Abraham buried
Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the
same is ^aHebron in the land of Canaan.  Abraham also married Hagar,
(the handmaiden of Sarah) and Keturah.  D&C 132: 34-35, 37  God
^acommanded Abraham, and Sarah gave ^bHagar to Abraham to wife.
And why did she do it?  Because this was the law; and from Hagar sprang
many people.  This, therefore, was fulfilling, among other things, the promises.
Was Abraham, therefore, under condemnation?  Verily I say unto you, Nay;
for I, the Lord, ^acommanded it.  . . . Abraham received ^aconcubines, and they bore
him children; and it was accounted unto him for righteousness, because they were
given unto him, and he abode in my law; as Isaac also and ^bJacob did none other
things than that which they were commanded; and because they did none other
things than that which they were commanded, they have entered into their
^cexaltation, according to the promises, and sit upon thrones, and are not angels
but are gods.

The Children of 022: Abraham - Abram
022-001:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 023: BOOK - Ishmael
022-002:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 023: ISAAC
022-003:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 023: BOOK - Zimran
022-004:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 023: BOOK - Jokshan
022-005:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 023: BOOK - Medan
022-006:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 023: BOOK - Midian
022-007:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 023: BOOK - Ishbak
022-008:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 023: BOOK - Shua (Shuah)
022-009:   Seed of Abraham
Family Information:
geography (location):
Born in Ur of the Chaldees: Ur Kaśdim.
Lived in Canaan and Ancient Egypt.

life:
Abraham: Facsimile No. 1 and Facsimile No. 3

religion:
Abraham - Abram received the priesthood D&C 84: 14 from
^bMelchizedek and wrote The Book of Abraham, part of
The Pearl of Great Price.

time period:   2062/2002 B.C. to 1887 /1827 B.C.
Terah was 70 when Haran and Abraham were born (Gen. 11:26).
Some have supposed that Abraham was not born until Terah was
130 years old.  This conclusion is drawn from a variety of scriptures.
It appears from these adjusted accounts, that from the flood [2344 B.C.]
to the birth of Abraham was 282/342 years.  Gen. 16: 16  And Abram
was fourscore and six years old [1976 B.C./1916 B.C.], when Hagar
bare Ishmael to Abram.  Gen. 17: 24   And Abraham was ninety years
old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Gen. 25: 7  And these are the ^adays of the years of ^bAbraham^'s life
which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.

Research Notes:
A.  R. H. Charles, D. Litt., D.D., discusses The Book of Jubilees, in the
     book: The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English
     published in 1913.  He mentions it was written in Hebrew by a Pharisee,
     between 109 B.C. and 105 B.C., largely based on earlier books and traditions.
     The word: Tina = Tanais, or Don, appears in Chapter 8, verses 12, 16, 25, 28;
     also, Chapter 9, verses 2 and 7, relating to the divisions and subdivisions of
     land amongst the children and grandchildren of Noah.

     "And there came forth on the writing as Shem's lot, the middle of the earth,
     which he should take as an inheritance for himself and for his sons for the
     generations of eternity, from the middle of the mountain range of Rafa
     [Ural Mountains], from the mouth of the water from the river Tina, and his
     portion goes towards the west through the midst of this river, and it extends
     till it reaches the water of the abysses, out of which this river goes forth
     and pours its waters into the sea Meat [Maeotis or Sea of Azov], and this
     river flows into the great sea.". . .

     "And for Japheth came forth the third portion beyond the river Tina
     to the north of the outflow of its waters, and it extends northeasterly
     to the whole region of Gog and to all the country east thereof.  And it
     extends northerly to the north, and it extends to the mountains of Qelt
     [the Celts] towards the north . . ."

     "And Shem also divided amongst his sons. . ."
     "And for Arpashshad [Arphaxad 2,342 to 1,904 B.C.], came forth
     the third portion, all the land of the region of the Chaldees to the east
     of the Euphrates, [Chaldea = An ancient region in southern Babylonia
     along the Euphrates River and the Persian Gulf in southwestern Asia],
     bordering on the Red Sea, and all the waters of the desert close to the
     tongue of the sea which looks towards Egypt, all the land of Lebanon
     and Sanir and Amana to the border of the Euphrates."

     Since the Biblical genealogies show patriarchal descent as: Noah to Shem,
     to Arphaxad, to Salah, to Eber (the Hebrews), to Peleg, to Reu, to Serug,
     to Nahor, to Terah and finally to Abram [Abraham]; the promises given
     to Abraham, to have the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession,
     appear to be a reconfirmation of the legal heir descent, the patriarchal
     right of inheritance, granted by Shem to Arphaxad/Arpashshad, his son;
     Arphaxad being the 6^th great-grandfather of Abraham.

B.  Merchant activities of the Jews, back to the time of Abraham, are
     noted in the Journal of Near Eastern Studies (JNES), Vol. XVII
     (Jan-Oct 1958).  In the article "Abraham and the Merchants of Ura",
     Cyrus H. Gordon mentions that for some strange reason, little if any
     attention has been paid to the repeated statement in Genesis that the
     patriarchs were in Palestine for trading.  The patriarchs went abroad
     to do business, as Abraham comes from beyond the Euphrates, visits
     Egypt, fights with kinglets from as far off as Elam; i.e., it is clear that
     Abraham was a merchant prince.  Settling down in a foreign area would
     be part of merchant activities of the extended patriarchal family, to
     provide a sure chain of command, with bona fide and honest individuals.

     Harran [Haran], was the place of Abraham's first settlement on leaving
     Ur of the Chaldees, and was a trading center of great importance, as noted
     in Assyrian inscriptions.  [Also called Charran.]  Abraham's "wandering
     was not nomadism in the Bedouin sense, but was an occupational feature
     of tamkarutum, 'trading abroad'.  The patriarchal narratives, far from
     reflecting Bedouin life, are highly international in their milieu, in a setting
     where a world order enabled men to travel far and wide for business enterprise."

C.  Michael H. Chandler and The Pearl of Great Price,
      from The Thomas Milton Tinney, [Sr.] Papers , 1941 -

D.  Additional topic areas related to The Book of Abraham



023:   ISAAC (the son of ABRAHAM- ABRAM)

Family of Isaac:
Isaac
Marriage:  Gen. 24: 67  And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent,
and took Rebecca (a daughter of Bethuel, the son of Nahor, the son of 021:
Terah), and she became his wife.  Gen. 25: 20  And Isaac was forty years old
when he took Rebekah to wife [1922/1862 B.C.], the daughter of ^aBethuel
the Syrian of ^bPadan-aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
 
The Children of 023: Isaac
023-001:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 023: BOOK - Esau
023-002:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 024: JACOB - ISRAEL
Family Information:
geography (location):
Lived in Canaan.

life:
Isaac
religion:
Isaac: Isaac

time period:  1962/1902 B.C. to 1782/1722 B.C.
Gen. 21: 5 And Abraham was an ^ahundred years old, when his son Isaac
was born unto him.  Gen. 35: 28-29  And the ^adays of ^bIsaac were an
hundred and fourscore years.  And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died,
and was ^agathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his
sons Esau and Jacob ^bburied him.

Research Notes:



024:  JACOB - ISRAEL (the son of ISAAC)

Family of Jacob (Israel):
Jacob
Marriage:  The four wives of Jacob - Israel were the two daughters
of Laban (a son of Bethuel, the son of Nahor, the son of 021: Terah);
Leah and her sister Rachel (who died at Bethlehem); concubines: Zilpah,
the handmaid of Leah and Bilhah, the handmaid of Rachel.  The children
of these wives were all born within a thirteen year period, and all (excepting
Joseph and Benjamin), were born at ^bPadan-aram.
References:
A.  Ancient and Modern Genealogies, with Temple
     (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Records,
     page 54; privately published by Thomas Milton Tinney, [Sr.].

B.  Swimming the Gene Pool: Israelite Kinship Relations, Genes, and Genealogy
     Matthew Roper - FARMS Review - Volume 15 - Issue 2
     "Likewise, little is known of the women who married the sons of Jacob,
     though we know that Joseph married an Egyptian, Asenath, who bore him
     Manasseh and Ephraim (Genesis 41:45, 50–52).⁸  Joseph's half-brother
     Judah had three sons by a Canaanite wife named Shuah and twin sons by
     Tamar, whose ancestry is unknown (Genesis 38:2–30).  Of the half-Canaanite
     sons, only one (Shelah) lived long enough to have posterity, but his mtDNA
     would be unlike that of his half-brothers, Pharez and Zarah, unless their mothers
     were sisters (Genesis 46:12; Numbers 26:19–21).  From Pharez descended
     Salmon, who married the Canaanite woman Rahab, who had been spared
     with her father's household during the Israelite destruction of the city of
     Jericho in Joshua's day.  Their son was Boaz, who married the Moabitess
     Ruth, who became the great-grandmother of King David and, consequently,
     of all the kings of Judah and of Jesus Christ himself (Ruth 4:18–22;
     Matthew 1:2–16).  While most of the kings of Judah from whom Christ is
     descended married women of the same tribe or of other Israelite tribes,
     this is not true of all of them.  For example, Rehoboam, son of Solomon,
     was born of a woman named Naamah, who was an Ammonitess (1 Kings 14:21,
     31; 2 Chronicles 12:13).  Genesis 40:10 informs us that Simeon had a Canaanite
     wife, but nothing is said of the other wives of Jacob's sons or their origins,
     although it seems likely that they also married outside Abraham's kin group.
     The children and grandchildren of Jacob who are mentioned in the biblical
     account number seventy, but this does not include daughters and granddaughters.
     Although nothing is specifically said on the matter, it is not unreasonable to
     assume that Jacob's people included servants and their families as well.⁹
     One thing, however, seems certain: all of Jacob's grandchildren inherited
     their mtDNA from their mothers, who were likely non-Israelite."

The Children of 024: Jacob - Israel
024-001:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 025: BOOK - Reuben (Tribe of Reuben)
024-002:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 025: BOOK - Simeon (Tribe of Simeon)
024-003:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 025: The BOOK [Stick] of LEVI
024-004:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 025: The BOOK [Stick] of JUDAH
024-005:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 025: BOOK - Dan (Tribe of Dan)
024-006:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 025: BOOK - Naphtali (Tribe of Naphtali)
024-007:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 025: BOOK - Gad (Tribe of Gad)
024-008:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 025: BOOK - Asher (Tribe of Asher)
024-009:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 025: BOOK - Issachar (Tribe of Issachar)
024-010:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 025: BOOK - Zebulun (Tribe of Zebulun)
024-011:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a dau) 025: BOOK - Dinah
024-012:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 025: JOSEPH
024-013:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 025: BOOK - Benjamin (Tribe of Benjamin)
Family Information:
House of Jacob
- Israelites: Ancestor Roots Information: Israel

geography (location):
Jacob lived in Canaan and Ancient Egypt: People of Israel.

life:
Jacob (Israel)
religion:
Jacob

time period:  1902/1842 B.C. to 1755/1695 B.C.
Gen. 25: 25-26 And the first came out red, all over like an ^ahairy garment;
and they called his name ^bEsau.  And after that came his brother out, and
his hand took hold on Esau’s ^aheel; and his ^bname was called ^cJacob: and
Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.  Gen. 47: 28  And Jacob
lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of ^aJacob was
an hundred forty and seven years.

Research Notes:
A.  Eldred G. Smith, "All May Share in Adam's Blessing,"
     Ensign, June 1971, 100  Elder Eldred G. Smith - Patriarch to the Church
     When a person receives a patriarchal blessing, he is entitled to receive
     a pronouncement of the blessings of Israel, or a declaration of the tribe
     of Israel through which his blessings shall come.  This is the right to the
     blessings of those recorded in the book of remembrance started in the
     days of Adam.  This does not mean that all the nations of the earth will
     become literal descendants of Abraham, though his seed may be scattered
     in all nations, but as it says, all shall receive the blessings through those
     who are the seed of Abraham and shall be accounted his seed, and rise up
     and bless him as their father. (See Abr. 2:10.)  If members of the Church
     are literal descendants of Abraham, they will receive such a blessing.   If
     they are not literal descendants of Abraham and join the Church and receive
     the gospel, they shall receive the priesthood blessings, even eternal life,
     through those who are of Israel or which would be referred to as by adoption.
     - Mormonism and Judaism

B.  Family and Society in Ancient Israel

C.  Family in the Bible
     Abstract I: beginning study of the varied depths of partriarchalism in the Bible.
     . . . The bet 'ab or household was also the legal base of society.  The extended
     family or household had judicial independence of any political power beyond it;
     the bet 'ab was indeed the primary framework of legal authority.  The fifth
     commandment underscored this, inculcating the honoring of father and mother.
     Within the clan the judicial "elders" or judges were the heads of households
     who sat in the City Gate to execute justice.  A judge was a patriarch who judged
     rightly in the long view.

D.  History of Ancient Israel and Judah
     - The Lord Jesus Christ, Jews, The House of Joseph, Gentiles and Heathens

E.  Kingdom of Israel (United Monarchy)
     - Two House Theology

F.  Ten Lost Tribes
     - Groups Claiming an Affiliation with the Ancient Israelites
       - British Israelism
         Josephus mentions in Ant. Jud., (XVII, 13, 2; II, 7, 3 and XVIII, 7, 2),
         the banishment of Archelaus to Vienne in Gaul in the year A.D. 6, as well
         as Herod Antipas to Lyons in the year A.D. 39. The Babylonian Talmud,
         Vol. 8, Seder Nashim, Chapter I, Gittin, pages 1 and 26-27, mentions
         foreign parts was defined Lit[erally] as the 'province of the sea', a name
         given to all countries outside of Palestine and Babylonia. A review is
         made of how to reckon Eretz Israel, concerning the case of a boat in
         the open sea.  [For determining the status of] the islands in the sea, . . .
         And for the western border, ye shall have the Great Sea for a border;
         this shall be your west border (Numbers 34:6).  [To determine the status
         of] the islands on the border line, {4} (i.e., due west of the coast beyond
         the southern and northern extremities of the border of Palestine), we
         imagine a line drawn [due west] from Kapluria {5} (at the northern
         extremity of Mount Hor), to the [Atlantic] Ocean, and another from the
         Brook of Egypt to the [Atlantic] Ocean.  All within these lines belong to
         Eretz Israel and all outside to foreign parts, the 'province of the sea'.

         Temple and Endowments-Raising Grain and Building Storehouses
         - Dedication  A Discourse by President Heber C. Kimball, delivered
         in the Bowery, Great Salt Lake City, April 6, 1857 . . . I was in a place
         in England in which I felt very curious; but I did not know at the time
         what it meant.  I went through a town called Chadburn [Chatburn],
         beyond Clithero, [Lancashire, England].  I went through the streets
         of that town feeling as I never before felt in my life.  My hair would
         rise on my head as I walked through the streets, and I did not then
         know what was the matter with me.  I pulled off my hat, and felt that
         I wanted to pull off my shoes, and I did not know what to think of it.

         When I returned, I mentioned the circumstance to brother Joseph,
         who said, "Did you not understand it?  That is a place where some
         of the old Prophets travelled and dedicated that land, and their
         blessing fell upon you."  Acts 10  Peter in a vision is commanded
         to take the gospel to the Gentiles, which was after the death of
         Jesus Christ, who lived thirty and three years.  About ten or more
         years later, circa A.D. 44, would be the approximate time for this
         dedication to occur.  Genealogical pedigree attachments to the Kings
         of Britain, noted extensively on Internet online pedigrees, are not
         validated.   They are legendary fabrications, placed incorrectly within
         historical settings.  Any British Gentile personal intimate contacts or
         intermarriages, with early Christian Jewish church members would
         have been forbidden and prohibited, prior to circa A.D. 45.



025:   JOSEPH (the son of JACOB - ISRAEL)

Family of Joseph:
Joseph
Marriage:  Joseph was thirty years old when he married Asenath ,
the daughter of Potipherah, Prince and Priest of On, in 1781/1721 B.C.

The Children of 025: Joseph
025-001:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 025: BOOK - Manasseh (Tribe of Menasheh),
                  Gen. 41: 50-51  Born before the years of famine in Egypt happened,
                  circa 1781-1774/1721-1714 B.C.  The Book of Mormon, (another
                  Testament of Jesus Christ), in Alma - Chapter 10, confirms that
                  Amulek, living circa 82 B.C., was the son of Giddonah, who was
                  the son of Ishmael, who was a descendant of Aminadi, a further
                  descendant of Nephi, who was the son of Lehi, who came out of
                  the land of Jerusalem, who was a descendant of ^aManasseh, who
                  was the son of ^bJoseph who was ^csold into Egypt by the hands
                  of his brethren.  1 Ne. 3: 3 indicates recorded genealogies were
                  preserved on the Brass Plates of Laban: 4000 B.C. until 600 B.C.
                  Further records and prophecies of the Nephites were kept: noted
                  in a direct descending line, from the first man Adam, until Amulek,
                  living circa 82 B.C.
025-002:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 026: EPHRAIM
Family Information:
Samaria: Parable of the Good Samaritan
Samaritan: History and Origin
Samaritans have insisted that they are direct descendants of the Northern Israelite
tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, who survived the destruction of the Northern kingdom
of Israel by the Assyrians in 722 BCE.  The inscription of Sargon II records the deportation
of a relatively small proportion of the Israelites (27,290, according to the annals), so it is
quite possible that a sizable population remained that could identify themselves as Israelites,
the term that the Samaritans prefer for themselves.

geography (location):
Joseph lived in Canaan and Ancient Egypt: Tribe of Joseph.

life:
Joseph
religion:
Joseph (Joseph)

time period:  1811/1751 B.C. to 1701/1641 B.C.
Gen. 41: 45-46   And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnath-paaneah;
and he gave him to wife ^aAsenath the daughter of Potipherah ^bpriest of On.
And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.  And ^aJoseph was thirty years
old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt.  And Joseph went out from
the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.  In the 2nd
year of the Famine in Egypt, Gen. 45: 6 Joseph, who was 39 years old, presented
Gen. 47: 9 Jacob - Israel, who was 130 years old, to Pharaoh.  Joseph was born
when Jacob -  Israel was 91 years old.  Gen. 50: 22-26  Joseph died aged 110.

Research Notes:
A.  The ancient Books of the Bible, compared with Mormon Archaeology,
     invalidate the documentary hypothesis theories, traditionally known as:
     J, E, P, and D; for the Torah and the Deuteronomy history, from Joshua
     to Kings.  Some modern historians incorrectly state that the Torah
     was gradually recorded as the Hebrew Bible, between the 5th century
     B.C. and the 2nd century B.C.  Clearly, internal source evidence from
     The Pearl of Great Price, the Bible and the Book of Mormon, all suggest
     primary source documents, or copies thereof, going back to the time of
     Adam and (Eve - the Mother of all Living), were readily available to
     Moses, who then wrote or copied them for himself and other Israelites.
     The list of Biblical figures identified in extra-Biblical sources is compelling.
     Additional validation of the Bible, as a surviving primary source document,
     is made by the Joseph Smith, Jr.: Translation of the Bible.  Words added
     and corrections made, restore the original formation and sense of ancient
     scribes and prophets, including technical details from Genesis to Revelation.
     Joseph Smith, Jr. said, "I believe the Bible as it read when it came from the
     pen of the original writers.  Ignorant translators, careless transcribers, or
     designing and corrupt priests have committed many errors."
     Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith ... - Google™ Books [Jr.], p. 327.

B.  House of Joseph (LDS Church)
     - Stick of Joseph



026:   EPHRAIM (the son of JOSEPH)

Family of Ephraim:
Ephraim
Marriage:

The Children of 026: Ephraim
026-001:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 025: BOOK - Shuthelah
                  the family of the Shuthalhites.
026-002:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 025: BOOK - Becher,
                  the family of the Bachrites.
026-003:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 025: BOOK - Tahan,
                  the family of the Tahanites.
026-004:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 025: BOOK - Ezer,
                  whom the men of Gath that were born in that land slew.
026-005:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 025: BOOK - Elead,
                  whom the men of Gath that were born in that land slew.
026-006:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 027: BERIAH
Family Information:
Gen. 50: 23  And Joseph saw Ephraim's ^achildren of the third
generation, prior to his death at age 110, or circa 1701/1641 B.C.

geography (location):
Ephraim was born and lived in Ancient Egypt: Tribe of Ephraim.
life:
Ephraim

religion:
Ephraim  Gen. 48: 14  And Israel stretched out his right hand,
and laid it upon ^aEphraim^'s head, who was the younger, and
his left hand upon Manasseh's head, ^bguiding his hands wittingly;
for Manasseh was the firstborn.  D&C 133: 34  Behold, this is the
^ablessing of the ^beverlasting God upon the ^ctribes of ^dIsrael,
and the richer blessing upon the head of ^eEphraim and his fellows.

time period:  Born circa 1781-1774/1721-1714 B.C.
Gen. 41: 50-51  Born before the years of famine came, in Egypt,
during the seven years of plenty.

Research Notes:
A.  Ezek. 37: 16-19  Moreover, thou son of man [Ezekiel], take thee one ^astick,
     and ^bwrite upon it, For ^cJudah, and for the children of Israel his companions:
     then take another stick, and ^dwrite upon it, For ^eJoseph, the ^fstick of Ephraim,
     and for all the house of Israel his companions: And join them one to another
     into one stick; and they shall become ^aone in thine hand.  And when the children
     of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us ^awhat thou
     meanest by these?  Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will
     take the stick of ^aJoseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of
     Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah,
     and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.  1 Ne. 13: 37-42
     And ^ablessed are they who shall seek to bring forth my ^bZion at that day, for
     they shall have the ^cgift and the ^dpower of the Holy Ghost; and if they ^eendure
     unto the end they shall be ^flifted up at the last day, and shall be saved in the
     everlasting ^gkingdom of the Lamb; and whoso shall ^hpublish peace, yea, tidings
     of great joy, how beautiful upon the mountains shall they be.  And it came to
     pass that I beheld the remnant of the seed of my brethren, and also the ^abook
     of the Lamb of God, which had proceeded forth from the mouth of the Jew,
     that it came forth from the Gentiles ^bunto the remnant of the seed of my brethren.
     And after it had come forth unto them I beheld ^aother ^bbooks, which came forth
     by the power of the Lamb, from the Gentiles unto them, unto the ^cconvincing
     of the Gentiles and the remnant of the seed of my brethren, and also the Jews
     who were scattered upon all the face of the earth, that the records of the prophets
     and of the twelve apostles of the Lamb are ^dtrue.  And the angel spake unto me,
     saying: These ^alast records, which thou hast seen among the Gentiles, shall
       ^bestablish the truth of the ^cfirst, which are of the ^dtwelve apostles of the Lamb,
     and shall make known the plain and precious things which have been taken
     away from them; and shall make known to all kindreds, tongues, and people,
     that the Lamb of God is the Son of the Eternal Father, and the ^eSavior of the
     world; and that all men must come unto him, or they cannot be saved.  And
     they must come according to the words which shall be established by the mouth
     of the Lamb; and the words of the Lamb shall be made known in the records of
     thy seed, as well as in the ^arecords of the twelve apostles of the Lamb; where-
     fore they both shall be established in ^bone; for there is ^cone God and one
       ^dShepherd over all the earth.  And the time cometh that he shall manifest
     himself unto all nations, both unto the ^aJews and also unto the Gentiles;
     and after he has manifested himself unto the Jews and also unto the Gentiles,
     then he shall manifest himself unto the Gentiles and also unto the Jews,
     and the ^blast shall be first, and the ^cfirst shall be last.

B.  The Discourse: Preaching and Testimony - Gathering Israel - The Blood
     of Israel and the Gentiles - The Science of Life, by President Brigham Young,
     delivered in the Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake City, April 8, 1855.  President
     Young stated: "Joseph Smith, [Jr.] was a pure Ephraimite".

     The Pedigree of Joseph Smith, Jr. identifies ancestry from British Isles
     geographical areas: Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire,
     Devonshire, Essex Shire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire,
     Hertfordshire, Ireland, Kent Shire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Mercia,
     Middlesex Shire, Monmouthshire, Norfolk Shire, Northumberland Shire,
     Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Rutland Shire, Scotland, Somerset Shire,
     Suffolk Shire, Sussex Shire, Wales, Warwickshire, Wessex, Westmorland
     Shire, Wiltshire and Yorkshire; also, connections to European Royalty
     and Nobility lineages in Old Saxony (Saxons), France and Scandinavia.
     Joseph Smith, Jr., as a pure biological descendant of the Tribe of Ephraim,
     (the son of Joseph in Egypt), identifies as authentic, historical migrations of the
     Tribe of Ephraim, from ancient Israel to Western Europe and the British Isles.

     Biological validation of the pure Ephraimite status of the Smith Family are
     noted in  D&C 124: 91-96  . . . that my servant Hyrum may take the office
     of Priesthood and ^aPatriarch, which was appointed unto him by his father,
     by blessing and also by right; That from henceforth he shall hold the keys
     of the ^apatriarchal blessings upon the heads of all my people, That whoever
     he blesses shall be blessed, and whoever he ^acurses shall be cursed; that
     whatsoever he shall ^bbind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever
     he shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.  And from this time forth
     I appoint unto him that he may be a prophet, and a ^aseer, and a revelator
     unto my church, as well as my servant Joseph; That he may act in concert
     also with my ^aservant Joseph; and that he shall receive counsel from my
     servant Joseph, who shall show unto him the ^bkeys whereby he may ask
     and receive, and be crowned with the same blessing, and glory, and
     honor, and priesthood, and gifts of the priesthood, . . . That my servant
     Hyrum may bear record of the things which I shall show unto him, that
     his name may be had in honorable remembrance from generation to
     generation, forever and ever.  . . . D&C 124: 123-124  Verily I say unto
     you, I now give unto you the ^aofficers belonging to my Priesthood, that
     ye may hold the ^bkeys thereof, even the Priesthood which is after the
     order of Melchizedek, which is after the order of mine ^cOnly Begotten
     Son.  FIRST, I give unto you Hyrum Smith to be a ^apatriarch unto you,
     to hold the ^bsealing blessings of my church, even the Holy Spirit of
       ^cpromise, whereby ye are ^dsealed up unto the day of redemption, that
     ye may not fall notwithstanding the ^ehour of temptation that may come
     upon you.

     That the Smith Family were all of the biological seed of Joseph in Egypt
     is validated by prophesy in the Book of Mormon  2 Ne. 3: 6-16  A choice
       ^aseer will I ^braise up out of the fruit of thy loins . . . And his ^aname shall
     be called after me [Joseph Smith, JR.]; and it shall be after the ^bname of
     his father [Joseph Smith, SR.].  And he shall be ^clike unto me; for the thing,
     which the Lord shall bring forth by his hand, by the power of the Lord shall
     bring ^dmy people unto ^esalvation.

     The Royal Family of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Junior,
     First President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
     Tinney, Thomas Milton, 1941-
     [Salt Lake City : Tinney-Green(e) Family Organization, s.d.]
     333, 4 leaves : ill., facsims., ports. ; 28 cm.
     BX 8670.2 .T496r
     Americana Collection - 1130 HBLL
     [Brigham Young University - (President) Harold B. Lee Library]
     Thomas Milton Tinney, Sr. (1973). The Royal Family of the Prophet
     Joseph Smith, Junior, First President of the Church of Jesus Christ of
     Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City: Tinney-Green(e) Family Organization
     Pub. Co. [Library of Congress Call Number: CS71.S643 1973]
     The Royal Family of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Junior, First President
     of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [microform]
     UC Berkeley Bancroft [Banc Film #375]  Positive microfilm Printing
     master available (Box 745:2).  Contact The Bancroft Library for availability.
     Note:  Supplement to the author's Ancient and Modern Genealogies,
     with Temple (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Records,
     published in 1973.

C.  LDS.org - Topic Definition - Patriarchal Blessings
     - Ephraim: Patriarchal Blessings - Google™ Images
     - subject:"Patriarchal blessings (Mormon Church)" - Google™ Books
     - Topical Guide: Patriarchal Blessings
       Partial sample from one sacred patriarchal blessing:
       The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
       Provo STAKE   No. 251     Date: June 23, 1957   City: Provo   State: Utah
       A BLESSING given by Charles E. Rowan, Jr. Patriarch, upon the head
       of Write Name in Full: Thomas Milton Tinney [Thomas Milton Tinney, Sr.]
       son of Father's Name in Full: Prentice Tinney [Prentice Thomas Tinney] and
       Mother's Maiden Name: Hazel Kathleen Greene born Date: August 10, 1941
       at City: Waynesville County: Warren State: Ohio

       Brother Thomas Milton Tinney:  According to thy desire, officiating
       as a Patriarch in the Provo Stake of Zion, I lay my hands upon your head
       and under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost give unto you a Patriarchal Blessing
       that it may stimulate you to a life of activity in the Church, that it may give you
       an index to some of your possibilities through your faithfulness; also that you
       may know your lineage.  Thou art of the seed of Abraham, through Joseph
       and the loins of Ephraim.  Hence, you are entitled to all the blessings that
       have been revealed in this dispensation. . . .



027:  BERIAH  (the son of EPHRAIM)

Family of Beriah:
Beriah
Marriage:

The Children of 027: Beriah
027-001:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 025: BOOK - Rephah
027-002:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 028: RESHEPH
027-013:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a dau) 025: BOOK - Sherah,
                  who built Beth-horon the ^anether, and the upper, and Uzzen-sherah.
Family Information:
Gen. 50: 23  And Joseph saw Ephraim's ^achildren of the third generation,
prior to his death at age 110, or circa 1701/1641 B.C.

geography (location):
Beriah was a resident of Ancient Egypt.
life:
Beriah
religion:
time period:

Research Notes:



028:   RESHEPH (the son of BERIAH)

Family of Resheph:
Marriage:

The Children of 028: Resheph
028-000:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 029: TELAH
Family Information:
Gen. 50: 23  And Joseph saw Ephraim's ^achildren of the third
generation, prior to his death at age 110, or circa 1701/1641 B.C.

geography (location):
Resheph was a resident of Ancient Egypt.
life:
Resheph
religion:
time period:

Research Notes:
A.  According to the Smith's Bible Dictionary,
     Resheph is listed as a son of Ephraim.



029:   TELAH (the son of RESHEPH)

Family of Telah:
Marriage:

The Children of 029: Telah
029-000:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 030: TAHAN
Family Information:
Gen. 50: 23  And Joseph saw Ephraim's ^achildren of the third
generation, prior to his death at age 110, or circa 1701/1641 B.C.

geography (location):
Telah was a resident of Ancient Egypt.
life:
Telah
religion:
time period:

Research Notes:



030:   TAHAN (the son of TELAH)

Family of Tahan:
Marriage:

The Children of 030: Tahan
030-000:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 031: LAADAN
Family Information:
geography (location):
Tahan was a resident of Ancient Egypt.
life:
Tahan
religion:
time period:

Research Notes:



031:   LAADAN (the son of TAHAN)

Family of Laadan:
Marriage:

The Children of 031: Laadan
031-000:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 032: AMMIHUD
Family Information:
geography (location):
Laadan was a resident of Ancient Egypt.
life:
Laadan
religion:
time period:

Research Notes:



032:   AMMIHUD (the son of LAADAN)

Family of Ammihud:
Ammihud
Marriage:

The Children of 032: Ammihud
032-000:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 033: ELISHAMA
Family Information:
geography (location):
Ammihud was a resident of Ancient Egypt.
life:
Ammihud
religion:
Ammihud
time period:

Research Notes:



033:   ELISHAMA (the son of AMMIHUD)

Family of Elishama:
Marriage:

The Children of 033: Elishama
033-000:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 034: NUN - NON
Family Information:
geography (location):
Elishama was a resident of Ancient Egypt.
life:
Elishama
religion:
time period:

Research Notes:



034:   NUN - NON (the son of ELISHAMA)

Family of Nun - Non:
Nun
Marriage:

The Children of 034: Nun - Non
034-000:   DIRECT DESCENDANT (a son) 035: JEHOSHUA - JOSHUA - OSHEA
Family Information:
geography (location)
Nun - Non was a resident of Ancient Egypt.
life:
Nun
religion:
time period:

Research Notes:
A.  Nun - 14th letter of the Hebrew Alphabet



035:   JEHOSHUA - JOSHUA - OSHEA (the son of NUN - NON)

Family of Jehoshua - Joshua - Oshea [Also spelled Hoshea]:
Joshua
Marriage:

The Children of 035: Jehoshua - Joshua - Oshea
035-000:   DIRECT DESCENDANT . . .
Family Information:
geography (location):
Jehoshua - Joshua - Oshea was a resident of Ancient Egypt,
until the time of The Exodus: Stations List.  He initiated the
Tribal Allotments of Israel for the land of Canaan.

life:
Book of Joshua: Book of Joshua

religion:
Joshua was a true and faithful friend of the prophet Moses and his brother
Aaron.  Joshua saved the life of Rahab, daughter and father's household,
in the City of Jericho.  Dynastic contacts of Gentile Royalty with the priesthood
royalty and military descendants of Abraham, are noted in the national history
of the Jews, at the time of Balaam.  The concept of the God-Man Messiah:
"there shall come a ^bStar out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel",
was conveyed through commercial enterprise to the various gentile nations,
the source from which the Greeks created their own fabulous legends:
historic fiction handed down within Greek Mythology.

time period:
Dating the Exodus

Research Notes:
A.  Jericho - Walking in Their Sandals

B.  Bible Maps
     - Lachish: Lachish Letters City of Lachish

C.  What about Continental Drift?  The immediate high velocity amplification
     of "continental drift" would allow the appearance of the Sun to stand still,
     (from the command of God given through the Prophet Joshua), as written
     in the Holy Scripture.  By intensive "continental drift", there would also
     be the appearance of the shadow on the sun dial of Ahaz returning ten degrees
     backward, (by the command of God through the Prophet Isaiah), in behalf
     of Hezekiah, the King of Judah.  Hel. 12: 15  And thus, according to his word
     the ^aearth goeth back, and it appeareth unto man that the ^bsun standeth still;
     yea, and behold, this is so; for surely it is the earth that moveth and not the sun.

D.  FRAGMENTED PEDIGREES OF THE TRIBE OF EPHRAIM
     Credible Tribe of Ephraim connections, descending from Jehoshua -
     Joshua - Oshea, do not currently exist, including ('The Kinship of families')
     chart prepared by the late Archibald Fowler Bennett, and other charts,
     such as ('The royal line '), compiled by the late Albert F. Schmuhl.
     Portions of Royalty lineages are found in compiled resources, such as
     Magna Carta Ancestry, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants
     and Plantagenet Ancestry.

     Archibald F. Bennett wrote an article: "The Children of Ephraim" in:
     The Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine, Vol. XXI 1930, pgs. 67-85.
     [Indexed in the Early Church Information card file at the main library
     (Family History Library) only. 7392 979.2 H25u index, Index for v. 1-31.]
     "Thus tradition, history and archaeology unite in tracing the ancestors
     of the Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon races to the region of the Black Sea,
     finding them originally Israelites of the captivity." . . .
     . . .
     "When Joseph died at the age of 110 years, he had lived to see Ephraim's
     children of the third generation.  The eldest son of Ephraim was Shuthelah,
     and other sons were Bered and Tahan.  Some of Ephraim's family were slain
     by the men of Gath in Egypt who came to steal their cattle out of the land of
     Goshen."
     . . .
     "At the first enumeration taken of the Israaelites by tribes, in the wilderness
     of Sinai after the exodus from Egypt, in the days of Moses, the tribe of Ephraim
     contained Num. 1: 32-33  40,500 males over twenty years of age able to bear arms."
      . . . Num. 10: 22 (22-24)  "Elishama, son of Ammihud, the son of Laadan, who was
     descended from Shuthelah, represented the tribe of Ephriam.  Elishama was father
     to Nun, whose son Joshua became leader of all Israel after Moses."
     . . .
     Num. 2: 24  All that were numbered of the camp of ^aEphraim were an hundred
     thousand and eight thousand and an hundred, throughout their armies.  And they
     shall go forward in the third rank.
     . . .
     Num. 26: 37  These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those
     that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five hundred.
     . . .
     Num. 34: 24  And the prince of the tribe of the children of Ephraim,
     Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.
     . . .
     Josh. 16: 4-10  So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim,
     took their ^ainheritance.  Tribe of Ephraim:  "The boundaries of the portion
     of the land assigned to Ephraim are given in Josh. 16:1-10.  It included most
     of what was afterwards called Samaria as distinguished from Judea and Galilee.
     It thus lay in the center of all traffic, from north to south, and from Jordan to
     the sea, and was about 55 miles long and 30 broad.  The Tabernacle and
     the Ark were deposited within its limits at Shiloh, where it remained for four
     hundred years.  During the time of the Judges and the first stage of the monarchy
     this tribe manifested a domineering and haughty and discontented spirit.  For more
     than five hundred years, . . . , Ephraim, with its two dependent tribes of Manasseh
     and Benjamin, exercised undisputed pre-eminence."
     . . .
     Josh. 19: 49-50  . . . the children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of
     Nun among them: According to the word of the LORD they gave him the city which
     he asked, even Timnath-serah in mount ^aEphraim: and he built the city, and dwelt
     therein.  Josh. 24: 29-30  And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the
     son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.
     And they ^aburied him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah which is
     in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash.
     . . .
     Book of Judges: Israel's Period of the Judges
     [The King's Calendar is a computer generated mathematical synchronism
     primarily of all the Biblical Chronological Data for the Divided Kingdom of
     Israel, but extending  its' application to the chronologies of Josephus, Seder
     Olam Rabbah and the Damascus Documents of the Dead Sea Scrolls.]
     Othniel ("the only judge mentioned connected with the Tribe of Judah"),
     Ehud, Shamgar, Deborah and Barak, Gideon, Abimelech, Tola, Jair, Jephthah,
     [Judg. 12: 6  Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan:
     and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.]
     Ibzan, Elon, Abdon, Samson, Eli and Samuel.
     . . .
     Kings of Judah and Israel
     1 Chr. 12: 30  (During the time of [King] David)  And of the children of Ephraim
     twenty thousand and eight hundred, mighty men of valour, famous throughout
     the house of their fathers.
     1 Chr. 27: 10  (During the time of [King] David)  The seventh captain for the
     seventh month was Helez the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his
     course were twenty and four thousand.
     1 Chr. 27: 14  (During the time of [King] David) The eleventh captain for the
     eleventh month was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim: and
     in his course were twenty and four thousand.
     1 Chr. 27: 20  Of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah:
     of the half tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah:
     . . .
     "From the time of the revolt, the history of Ephraim is in two senses the history
     of the kingdom of Israel, since not only did the tribe become a kingdom, but the
     kingdom embraced little besides the tribe . . ." (Smith: Bible Dictionary, p 283.)
     Research Notes: Mesha Stele and Tel Dan Stele
     2 Chr. 28: 7  And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king’s son,
     and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah that was next to the king.
     2 Chr. 28: 12  Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the
     son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of
     Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against them that came from
     the war,
     . . .
     "in the days of Pekah king of Israel came {Tiglath-Pileser III} king of Assyria."
     and took a number of cities including some of the strongholds of Ephraim
     and all the land of Naphtali and carried off other captives," even the Reubenites,
     and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah,
     and unto Habor, and Hora, and to the river Gozan, unto this day."
     (11 Kings 15:19, 29; 1 Chron. 5:26.)  He chronicles his achievements in these words:
     "The distant land of Beth-Khumri....the whole of its inhabitants I carried away."
     (Ragozin: The Story of Assyria, p 232.)  "Assyrian inscriptions record, in the fifth
     year of his reign (739 BC), a victory over Azariah (Uzziah), king of Judah, whose
     achievements are described in 2 Chronicles 26:6-15.  In 733 BC his armies
     conquered Philistia on the Mediterranean sea coast, destroyed Damascus and
     occupied most of Israel, with its northern regions becoming Assyrian provinces."
     "These events were recorded in the Bible, which describes how Tiglath-Pileser III
     defeated Pekah, king of Israel, and Rezin, king of the Aramaeans, who had allied
     against him.  He executed Rezin, and Pekah was murdered by Hoshea, who took
     control of the rump Israelite kingdom as a vassal paying tribute to the Assyrians.
     (2 Kings 15:29; 16:5-9; 1 Chronicles 5:6, 26)  Ahaz (known to the Assyrians as
     Yahu-khazi), the king of Judah, was also forced to pay tribute to the Assyrian
     conqueror (2 Kings 16:10-16)."
     . . .
     "The plan will be to trace the story of the children of Ephraim down through
     the captivity to the point where their history merges with that of the tribes
     which settled northern Europe and became the progenitors of the people of
     Scandinavia, Great Britain, Germany, France, etc."  Early Jewish Writings:
     Jewish documents from antiquity with translations, introductions and links.
     . . .
     "In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assuria took Samaria and carried
     Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and in Habor by the river
     of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes." (11 Kings 17:6.)  Sargon II
     ". . .  A rising in Ashdod, supported by Judah, Moab, Edom and Egypt was
     suppressed, and Ashdod became an Assyrian province. . . . Under his rule
     the Assyrians completed the defeat of the Kingdom of Israel, capturing
     Samaria after a siege of three years and dispersing the inhabitants." . . .
     "During the reign of the last king of the northern kingdom, Hosea 2 Kings 10
     the Assyrians invaded in 722/721 B.C.E. (initially under Shalmaneser V and
     finally under Sargon II) when they established complete control over the capital
     city and the remainder of the northern kingdom.  The fragment of a stela with
     an Assyrian inscription attributed to Sargon II was found on the eastern slope
     of the acropolis testifying to their presence.  In addition, according to inscriptions
     from Sargon’s palace at Khorsabad (Dur-Sharrukin), the inhabitants of Samaria
     were deported to Assyria.  The remains of a wall relief in Room 5 of Sargon’s
     palace is thought to depict Samaria and its defeated defenders."
     . . .
     "In the beginning of my reign I besieged, I took by the help of the god Shamash,
     who gives me victory over my enemies, the city of Samaria (ir-Samirina). 27,280
     of its inhabitants I carried away . . . I took them to Assyria and put into their
     places people whom my hand had conquered." (Ragozin, p 247; Sayce: 'Ancient
     Civilizations and Their Vanished Glories.' in Book of History, p 1575, Carpenter,
     p 30.)"
     . . .
     "On the Nineveh marbles the story can be read that a people called Esak-ska
     (cf. Sakai, Saki-suna, Saxons) rebelled against the Assyrians about 670 B.C.
     or nearly fifty years after the captivity."
     . . .
     "They took this counsel among themselves, that they would leave the multitude
     of the heathen, and go forth into a further country, where never mankind dwelt,
     that there they might keep their statutes, which they never kept in their own land.
     And they entered in at the narrow passages of the Euphrates.  For the Most High
     then showed signs for them, and held still the flood till they were passed over.
     For through that country there was a great way to go, even of a year and a half.
     And the same region is called Arsareth. (11 Esdras  13:40-46.)"
     . . .
     "From this area north of the Black Sea two great general waves of migration spread
     over northern Europe.  The first was that of the Cimmerians or Kelts; the second that
     of the Scythians.  From the first group have arisen the Cimbri who attacked Rome, the
     Cymry or Welsh descended from the ancient Britons, the Bretons of Brittany in France,
     the Gaelic Scots and the Irish.  Some branches of this race settled early in Scandinavia.
     From the Scythian stock have sprung the Franks, the Gothic tribes which overthrew
     the Roman Empire and settled in Italy, Spain, and northern Africa, the Anglo-Saxons,
     the Lowland Scotch, the Swedes, Danes, Norwegians and Icelanders, the Germans,
     Flemish, Swiss and Dutch."  Ancient Mediterranean Cultures - Index
     . . .
     1 Ne. 22: 3-4  And behold, there are many who are already lost from the knowledge
     of those who are at Jerusalem.  Yea, the more part of all the ^atribes have been ^bled
     away; and they are ^cscattered to and fro upon the ^disles of the sea; and whither they
     are none of us knoweth, save that we know that they have been led away.
     . . .
     "The eminent Jewish commentator and historian, Moses Maimonides --who lived
     in the 13th century--in a manuscript commentary on the Old Testament, reviews
     the blessings which Jacob pronounced upon his sons.  He speaks of a certain
     Antenor, King of the Cimmerians, who lived 443 B.C.  This Antenor he termed
     'the chief Prince of Ephraim.'  In Hebrew genealogy this would mean he was
     probably oldest son of the oldest son down from Ephraim through Elishama
     and Joshua in patriarchal order of descent."   . . .  The Children of Ephraim and
     Early Franks "It is now impossible, without more knowledge of those early days,
     to either prove or disprove the links of this ancient record.  It stands, like some
     tall pillar amid the ruins of a once glorious temple, the sole remaining evidence
     of former granduer. . . ."
     . . .
     "From Scandinavia to the Baltic and thence southward, along the valley of the
     river Dnieper in Russia down to its mouth in the Black Sea, these mounds may
     be followed, marking the path of migration of some powerful people." . . .
     "According to Du Chaillu, the ornaments and relics found in these mounds near
     the Black Sea are 'remarkably alike' and 'exactly similar' to those found in the
     mounds of Scandinavia and the Baltic. (The Viking Age, Vol 1. pp 216, 299.)"
     . . . "The Russian Archaeological Society has made extensive excavations into
     these mounds and has unearthed hundreds of epitaphs of tombs, some of them
     of great antiquity, going back to pre-Christian times.  The inscriptions are in
     the Hebrew language, and give indisputable proof of the identity of the people
     who made them." . . . "The mounds of the Black Sea region, of Scandinavia,
     and of elsewhere in Europe are the way marks and high heaps of Ephraim."
     . . .
     President Brigham Young, spoke in the Bowery, Great Salt Lake City,
     on May 31, 1863.  . . . "The sons of Ephraim are wild and uncultivated,
     unruly, ungovernable.  The spirit in them is turbulent and resolute; they
     are the Anglo-Saxon race, and they are upon the face of the whole earth,
     bearing the spirit of rule and dictation, to go forth from conquering to conquer.
     They search wide creation and scan every nook and corner of this earth to
     find out what is upon and within it.  I see a congregation of them before me
     to-day.  No hardship will discourage these men; they will penetrate the
     deepest wilds and overcome almost insurmountable difficulties to develop
     the treasures of the earth, to further their indomitable spirit for adventure."
     . . .
     Chronicles of the Saxons, show that when they invaded England in A.D. 400,
     an appeal was "sent back to Scythia for reinforcements", to an area south-
     east of the Black Sea; an area from which Germans and Celts had migrated
     westward, to the coast of Europe.  "Archaeologists discovered in [A.D.] 2000
     that Scythians landed several miles outside St Austell in Cornwall and their
     presence had an influence on the Cornish language." . . . "from descendants
     of these tribes down to individuals living in typical nations of Europe; from
     these persons the various lines will be traced till they unite in a Puritan emigrant
     who sailed for New England, there to become a progenitor of numerous families
     among us."

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