Noah's Flood Chronology: Day by Day

NOAH'S FLOOD CHRONOLOGY; DAY BY DAY

The chronology of Genesis 7 and 8 shows us the Creator left us a celestial timepiece of two interwoven years; the lunar, which has 354 days, and the solar, which has 365 days. These two timepieces must work in harmony to find the appropriate time for meeting with IAUA.

In order to better understand the chronology of the flood, as well as the lunar-solar calendar, I've created a simpler graphical representation showing the flood chronology DAY BY DAY.

The chart simplifies the counting of days of the flood scenario; 40 days of rain, 150 days of the flooded earth, 30 days of the waters decreasing until mountain tops seen, 40 days of waiting, 21 days of sending forth messengers, 28 days until the beginning of the next year (Noah's 601st year), and the final 56 days until the 27th day of the second month of the following year.

In this chart, you will see alternating 29 and 30 day months, to compensate for the 29.53 days of the lunar cycle. Six of the months have 29 days, and six of the months have 30 days. The reason that specific dates in months are given, is to show where the period of days is anchored. For instance, the 1st day of the tenth month shows where to anchor the 40 day period that Noah waited for the water to decrease. 

Proponents of the 30 day month, 360 day year will find an inherent problem trying to reconcile the the 360 day year with the chronology of the flood.

The entire flood period, from the 17th day of the 2nd month, at the beginning of the flood, until the 27th day of the 2nd month the following year, is a period of 365 solar days, which includes 354 lunar days. The flood chronology accounts for the difference of 11 days between the two calendars, the lunar and solar.

If you add in the additional 30th day in the other six months, the result will be a 371 day solar year. 

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Noah's Flood Chronology; By the Numbers

Flood Chronology Chart

There Is No 360 Day Calendar in Genesis and The Flood

Noah’s Flood: A Lunar Event Occurring in Solar Time

In the 600th year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on this day, all the fountains of the great deep broke open and the windows of the heaven were opened… And the waters of the Flood were upon the earth…
In the 601st year… on the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth dried. Genesis 7:10-11; ibid. 8:13-14

The discrepancy between these two dates] represents the eleven days which the solar year is greater than the lunar year; hence the Flood lasted a complete year.

Noah’s Flood commenced on the 17th of Cheshvan, and ended on Cheshvan 27 of the following year.

The biblical commentaries explain that the Flood lasted exactly one year, and that the 11-day discrepancy in the dates represents the 11-day difference between the solar and lunar years.

This reflects the fact that different components of the calendar are based on a variety of natural cycles which do not easily lend themselves to synchronization. The month derives from the moon’s 29.5 day orbit of the earth; the year, from the 365-day solar cycle. The problem is that 12 lunar months add up to 354 days—eleven days short of the solar year.

Most calendars deal with this discrepancy by simply ignoring one or the other celestial timekeepers. For example, the Gregorian Calendar (which has attained near-universal status) is completely solar based. Its 365 days are divided into 12 segments of 30 or 31 days, but these “months” have lost all connection with their original association with the moon. There are also calendars (such as the Moslem Calendar) which are exclusively lunar-based, with months that are faithfully attuned to the phases of the moon. Twelve such months are regarded as a year, but these “years” bear no relation to the solar cycle (a given date in such a calendar will, in certain years, fall in the midst of summer and, in other years, in the dead of winter).

The Jewish calendar is unique in that it reconciles the solar and lunar time-streams. By employing a complex 19-year cycle in which months alternate between 29 and 30 days and years alternate between 12 and 13 months, the Jewish calendar sets its months by the moon, and its years by the sun, combining lunar time and solar time into a single system while preserving the integrity of each.