(72.)  And  as  to  the  probable  intervals  between  each  of
these  steps  of  descent — Kohath  the  son  of  Levi  being  .five
years  old  B.  C.  1778,  and  Amram  the  son  of  Kohath,  accord
ing  to  my  chronology,  having  been  born  cir.  B.  C.  1712,  Ko
hath  was  seventy-one  years  old  at  that  time.  Aaron,  being
three  years  older  than  Moses,  (born,  as  I  have  shewn h,  B.  C.
1640,)  must  have  been  born  B.  C.  1643,  when  Amram  his
father  was  seventy  years  of  age.  We  have  no  data  in  Scripture
for  the  births  of  Nadab  and  Abihu ;  but  supposing  both  of
these  set  aside,  forasmuch  as  we  know  that  Eleazar,  the  third

b  Fasti  Cath.  &c.  ii.  210-717.  712.
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son  of  Aaron,  must  have  been  still  under  twenty  at  the  rebel
lion  of  Kadesh  Barnea,  August  or  September  B.  C.  1559 — we
may  infer  from  that  fact  that  he  could  not  have  been  born
earlier  than  B.  C.  1578  at  least,  when  Aaron  his  father  must
have  been  sixty-five  years  old  complete  *.
