What is the second reason for great ages and the decline? What is the third reason for great ages and the decline? What is the fourth reason for great ages and the decline? What does the number 40 mean? What is the sign of hope? What is the fifth reason for great ages and the decline?  

1. What is the second reason for great ages and the decline?

2. Literary bridge between Adam and Abraham
Isralites wanted to be able to trace ancestry

2. What is the third reason for great ages and the decline?

3. Problem with transition and calculation of time

3. What is the fourth reason for great ages and the decline?

4. Sin alienates people from other people
Noah and Ark
Story problems - different writers

4. What does the number 40 mean?

Going from hardship of time of good
Flood
Israel's Wandering
Moses' Mountain Retreat
Jesus' desert experience

5. What is the sign of hope?

rainbow - covenant that God would never flood earth again

6. What is the fifth reason for great ages and the decline?

5. Sin alienates nation from nation
tower of babel
why people speak different language
ziggurats
e sag ila (the house that raises high its head)