From Adam vnto Noes floude are a M.cccccc.lvi.yeares.

For when Adam was .C.xxx. yeares olde, he begat Sethe.

Seth beyng C.v. yeares, begat Enos.

Enos beynge .xc. yeares, begat Caynan.

Caynan beyng .lxx. yeares begat Malalehel.

^noteMalalehel beyng .lxvi. yeares begat Iared.

Iared at the age of .Clx. yeares begat Enoch

Enoch being .lxv. yeares begat Mathusaleth

^noteMathusaleth at hys age of .Clxxxvij. yeares begat Lamech.

Lamech beyng Clxxxij. yeares begat Noe.

Noe at the c&obar;minge of the deluge or mayne floude was .cccccc. yeares olde, as apeareth in the .v. of Genesis. ¶ The whole s&ubar;me of the yeares are a .M.CCCCCC.lvi.

From the sayd deluge or floud of Noe vnto Abraham departed fr&obar; Chalde were .ccclxiij. yeares and ten dayes. For þe; sayd floud contynued one whole yeare ∧ ten dayes. ^note

Sem (which was Noes sonne) begat Arphax at .ij. yeares after that.

^noteArphaxat begat Salah when he was .xxxv. yeares olde. Salah beyng .xxx. yeares old begat Heber.

^noteHeber at hys age of .xxxiiij, begat Phalech.

Phalech beynge .xxx. yeares, begat Regu.

Regu beyng .xxxij. yeares, begat Saruch.

Saruch at hys age of .xxx. year. begat Nahor

Nahor being .xxix. yeares begat Thare.

Thare being .lxx. yeares begat Abraham

And Abraham departed from Chalde when he was .lxx. yeares olde. ¶ These sayde yeares accompted are .CCC.lxiij. yeares, ∧ .x. dayes.

From Abrahams departing from Vr in Chalde vnto the departinge also of the childr&ebar; of Israel are .cccc.xxx. yeares, gathered as foloweth.

^noteAbraham was in Charan .v. yeares, ∧ departed in the .lxxv. yeare.

^noteHe begat Isaac when he was .C. yeares olde and in the xxv. yeare of his departinge.

^noteIsaac begat Iacob when he was .lx. yeares olde.

^noteIacob went into Egypt with al hys familye when he was a C.xxx. yeares olde.

^noteIsrael was in Egypte cc.x. yeares. which remayne from that tyme.

Then rebate lxxx. yeares from thys. For so olde was Moyses when he conducted the Israelytes from Egypte. ^note

So the surplussage of the yeares, that is to saye .cxxx. are deuyded betwixte Amram ∧ Chath.

Then Chath begat Amr&abar; at hys age of .lxvij. yeares.

Amram beinge .lxv. yeares begat Moyses who in his .lxxx. yeare of his age departed with the Israelites from Egypte. ¶ So after this supputacyon these are the .CCCC. ∧ .xxx. yeares mencioned in the .xij. of Exodi, ∧ the .iij. of the Galathyans.

From the going of the Israelytes fr&obar; Egypt vnto the first buylding of the t&ebar;ple are .cccc.lxxx. yeares after thys supputacyon ∧ accompt

^noteMoyses remayned in the deserte or wyldernes xl. yeares

^noteIosue ∧ Othoniel xl. yeares. Aioth lxx. yeares.

Delbora xl. yeares. Gede&obar; xl. yeares: Abimelech thre yeares. Thela xxiij. yeares. Iair xxij yeares. Then were they withoute a captayn vnto þe; xviij. year of Iepthe. ^noteIepthe vi. yeares Abissam .vij. yeares. Elom .x. yearrs. Abaton viij. yeares. Sampson .xx. yeares. ^noteHeli iudge ∧ prieste xl. yeares. Samuel ∧ Saule raigned xl. yeares. Dauid was kyng .xl. yeares.

Salomon in the .iiij. yeare of hys raygne began the buyldynge of the temple. ¶ These are the .CCCC.lxxx. yeares mencyoned in the .iij. of the kinges and the .vi.

From the first buylding of the temple vnto the captiuite of Babil&obar; are .cccc. xix. yeares ∧ a halfe.

^noteSalomon raigned yet .xxxvi. yeares. Robo&abar; xvij. yeares. Abia .iij. yeares. Asa .xli. yeares. Iosaphat .xxv. yeares. Ior&abar; .viij. yeares. ^noteOchasias one year. Athalia the Quene .vij. yeares. Ioas .xl. yeares. Amasias .xxix. yeares. ^noteOzias lij. yeares. Ioath&abar; .xvi. yeares. Achas xvi. yeares. Ezechias xxix. yeares. Manasses lv. yeares. ^noteAmon .ij. yeares. Iosias .xxxi. yeares. ^noteIoachas .iij. monethes. Eliachim .xi. yeares. Ioachim, Ieconias .iij. monethes.
And here begynneth the Captiuite of Babylon, ∧ not after the .xi. year of Zedechia wh&ebar; bothe the temple ∧ the cytye was destroyed ∧ burned. Mathe .i. Ierem .xxiiij.xxv. ¶ The summe of these yeares are CCCC.ix. yeare, ∧ vi. monethes.

Ierusalem was reedifyed ∧ buylded agayne after the captiuite of Babylon a hundreth .xliij. yeares.

^noteThe captiuite contynued .lxx. yeares.

^noteThe children of Israel were delyuered ∧ restored to theyr fredom in the fyrst year of Cyrus.

^noteThe temple was begonne to be buylded in þe; ij. yeare of the sayde Cyrus, ∧ fynyshed in the xlvi. yeare, which was þe; sixt year of Darius After that Darius had raygned .xx. yeares. ^noteNehemias was restoreed to libertye, ∧ went

to buylde the cytye, whiche was fynyshed in the .xxxij. yeare of the sayde Darius.

^noteAll the yeares from the buyldynge of the temple agayne are .xxvi. yeares. ¶ The whole summe of yeares amountes to a hundreth .xliij. yeares.

From the reedifyinge of the cytye vnto the comminge of Christe are .cccc. lxxxiij. yeares, after thys supputaci&obar; or numbrynge.

It is mencyoned in the .ix. of Daniel, that Ierusalem shulde be buylde vp agayne, and that, from that tyme, vnto the comminge of Christe are .lxvij. weekes, and euerye weeke is rekened for seu&ebar; yeares. ^noteSo .lxvij. weekes a mounte to foure hundreth .lxxxiij. yeares. ^noteFor from the .xxxij. yeare of Darius vnto the .xlij. yeare of Augustus, in the whyche yeare oure Sauyoure Christe was borne, are iust and complete so manye yeares, where vpon we recken, that from Adam vnto Christ are thre thousand, ix. hundreth .lxxiiij. and vi. monethes and ten dayes. And from þe; byrthe of Christe vnto thys presente yeare is .M. D.xlix. And the whole summe and nombre of yeares from the begynnynge of the worlde vnto thys presente yeare of oure Lorde God a thousande .v. hundreth .xlix. are iust .v. thousande v. hundreth, and .xxiij. yeare vi. monethes, and the sayde odde ten dayes.

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