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Sarah was 90 or 91 when Isaac was born, and she died at the age of Still, it is only a matter of a very small amount of time, and she was either 90 or 91 when Isaac was born. If you notice, he would have been in his 70s when he arrived in Haran. We usually think of Jacob as being a young man, falling in love with young Rachel. While Rachel may have been young, Jacob was getting on in years!
Notice, as well, that although Isaac was old and felt he was about to die when Jacob stole the blessing Genesis 27 , the reality is that he still had over forty years of life left! Perhaps this says something about what happens when we lose one of our senses and the depression that follows — Isaac felt he was about to die, but feelings do not necessarily mean that something is about to happen. Jacob left a single man in his 70s owning nothing and returned with two wives, two concubines and 12 children and immense wealth in his 90s.
And he still had over twenty years to live in the vicinity of his father. Again, this places Joseph treating him as a child when he was a grown man in an interesting light. It is of interest that Benjamin had ten sons when they moved to Egypt — perhaps this was because of his sheltered life and spending all his time at home? What is the purpose of such an exercise?
By placing the Biblical characters in their correct place in history we can better see the time in which they lived. When we learn that some were actually old men as they were going about serving God, perhaps that tells us about our usefulness to God in our later lives. Perhaps it is comforting to notice that both Abraham and Isaac could have spent time with their grandchildren — what lessons could they have passed on to them?
And perhaps we need to realign our mental images of these people with the reality that they were quite a bit older than we have been previously taught. This may also have an influence on our timeline as we consider how we date the Israelites in Egypt.
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