Link to a quick summary. Also, see Probability Analysis of Multiple 46 (2×23) for Births of Adam to Moses: Using MT Regular Chronology (“430 years in Egypt”) Also, see Accumulative Age Probability Analysis in Biblical Chronologies, highlighting 460 years. About the Author: I am a Canadian Christian theologian specializing in Biblical numbers, chronology, and calendars. After earning a Bachelor of Theology degree from Bible College in 1985 and a year at Seminary, I devoted about 40 years to studying Biblical numeric patterns. My numeric studies include the Septuagint, Samaritan Pentateuch, Masoretic Text Bibles, New Testament Genealogies, the Book of Enoch, the Book of Jubilees, the Sumerian Kings List, and Berossus’s chronology. The Bible employs numerics similar to its neighboring cultures, using them as a universal language and strategic tool to demonstrate the supremacy of the God of Israel. Rather than deny pagan chronologies, it swallows them whole like Moses’ rod. Consequently, biblical lists and chronologies often serve as subtle polemics against pagan gods. I am grateful to the academic community for the rigorous work that dated the Exodus to 1446 BC and for carefully examining nuanced variations in the Septuagint chronology. SYNOPSIS The effects of different lengths of a year on Biblical Theology Most numbers in the Bible have symbolic meanings. The number “twenty-three” in the Bible symbolizes reconciliation, but is much more than that. “23” is a cosmic tool God uses to slow or hasten “the appointed time,” Hab. 2:3. By “23,” God stretches or contracts the timeline, so His decrees remain true but with mercy. It’s God’s tool to “cut short” the days of evil or, if needed, to lengthen days of mercy. If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, Matt: 24:22a; (Enoch 80:2) The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness; but is longsuffering to you-ward, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance… as you look forward to the day of God and speed it’s coming. 2Pet. 3:9,12a “23” is the priestly tool that converts to “25” — “grace multiplied (5 x 5)”. It’s written into the cosmos. Multiples of “23” unify the sun, moon, and stars (including Venus, “the Morningstar”). Cosmic multiples of 23 Primary: Secondary: Thus, in the above, the solar year converts to a Priestly year of 336 days, to a Prophetic year of 360, to the Enochian year of 364 days, to a lunar year of 12 moons, and to the Egyptian year of exactly 365 days. What they all have in common is the multiplier of 23. Doubtless, the ancients detected this commonality. For them, ’23’ resolved the mystery of time and unified the sun, moon, and stars. For information about the 336, 360, 364, and a lunar year, see: Also, see The “Shmita” is at hand! Jew and Gentile “One New Man” Aug. 6, 2021. The significance of the number “23” extends beyond celestial movements. Among the five Lehmer numbers, three—276, 552, and 966—are notable for being multiples of 46 (23 x 2). Furthermore, the number 138 (46 x 3) also adheres to this pattern, intriguingly standing out as the smallest number that logarithmically leaps into this strange sequence, peaking at 179931895322. 23 binds all covenants together Twenty-three also binds the many covenants in the Bible, including demonic covenants, such as “in the days of Jarod” (Enoch 6). (See the chart: “Covenantal thread of multiples of 23 to the Exodus in 1446 BC“.) “23” stretches time like fabric and, like bricks, reshapes the biblical chronology into interlocking blocks. It tames irrational numbers, rounding them like rugged rocks from a quarry. In the righteous hand of the scribe, the twisted serpentine 23 transforms into a straight rod of rounded numbers such as 25, 70, 300, 490, 500, and 1800. It makes sense of it all; it brings order out of chaos. Hidden in plain sight Because 23 was associated with an elite priesthood, it was not meant for everyone to know. It was meant for priests and scribes, initiates into the Enochian tradition. As instructed, ‘the key of 23’ was hidden and sealed. And thou, Daniel, close the words, and seal the book to the time of the end; until many are taught, and knowledge is increased. Dan. 12:4 Brenton Septuagint Translation But how was it to be hidden and sealed? Apparently, priests and scribes took this command quite literally. They sealed it within the Bible itself. They veiled it within the many numeric lists and customized chronologies. It was so well hidden that after the dispersion of 70 AD, it was soon forgotten altogether. The author has concluded that those of old, both Babylonian and Hebrew, worked out the end of their era to be 6 and 1 BC. The internal evidence itself leads to this conclusion. However, most of what is said here remains true no matter what date is set for the Exodus or Christ. Outline of Chapter One: Chapter One: What the prophets say about “23” Multiples of 23 are frequently found with the arithmetic of prophetic utterances. Some may be coincidental, but indeed not all. There is only a small number of numeric prophecies in the Bible. Here is a list of numeric utterances with multiples of 23. More obscure examples: Note: Terah’s Extra 60 Years. To keep things simple, this article ignores Terah’s alternative extra 60 years. Here is an example that illustrates both Terah’s +60 and Ezekiel’s ‘7 + 390 + 40′:Arphaxad was born two years after the Flood and seven years after the death of Lamech (who died at 777). Isaac was born 390 years after Arphaxad and married at age 40. Thus, we have 7 + 390 + 40. With the alternative extra 60 years of Terah (Acts 7:2), 430 years become 490 years, making it 1274 years from Lamech’s birth. (364 x 3.5 = 1274, with Lamech’s son Noah born at 182, which is half of 364.)Without this extra 60 years, there would be 1274 years from Lamech to the marriage of Esau, son of Isaac, from 3240 BC to 1966 BC. See the chart for 3240 and 1966 BC (MT) = 1751 BC (LXX/SP/NT) to 1446 and 1406 BC.In the MT, Creation is pushed back 60 years to 4174 BC, with an implied seven years/days at creation (4181-4174 BC and 4121-4114 BC). From 4181-4174 BC to the seven years of Ezekiel’s symbolic and actual siege of Jerusalem from 593-586 BC, there are 3588 years. Multiplying 3588 by 25/23 gives 3900 years, which aligns with God’s command to Ezekiel to siege Jerusalem for 390 days, “A day for every year of their sin” (Ezekiel 4). New Testament examples They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?” (John 2:20; also see John 8:57) John wrote the Book of Revelation and is no stranger to numeric symbolism, for example, the “153 fish” of John 21:11. “46 years”: The evidence for an intentional connection to 23 years is strong. There are 46 years (23 x 2) from the Exodus/tabernacle to when Israel rested from war (see chart). From this 46 years to the 46 years of John, it is 46 x 31 years.  (‘1446/5 BC to 1400/1399 BC‘ unto ’20/19 BC to 27/28 AD’.) There are 1380 years from when the land rested from war unto Herod’s temple (1400/1399 to 20/19 BC). This is an important observation when the Seder Olam Rabbah is discussed later. Behold the Lamb of God! Thus, the Exodus to Christ converts from 1472 to 1600 years, that’s ’40 x 40′ to when Christ went into the desert 40 days, just as Israel did, “a day for each year of their sin,” Num. 14:34; Ezek. 4. (Also, see 3680 years from Jarod; converts to 4000.) Christ died three years after His announcement that He would raise a ruined temple in three days (John 2:20). Therefore, Christ died 49 years from when the temple began to be built, a jubilee that culminates in the 50th year. (46 converts to 50. John 8:57.) 23000 living and dead The number “23000” in Numbers 3:39 and 1 Corinthians 10:8 stands out. As we will explore, “23” represents a priestly number that corrects wrongs and straightens what is crooked. It’s the mathematical equivalent of an animal sacrifice, which is crucial when people are far from the temple. According to the censuses taken in 1445 BC and 1407 BC (precisely ‘half-77’ years apart), Levites decreased from 22000 to 23000 (Numbers 3:39; 26:62). Just before the second census, a plague killed “24000” people. However, Paul refers to this number as “23000” in 1 Corinthians 10:8. This plague was the final one on that doomed “generation” (Deuteronomy 2:14; Numbers 26:62-65). Phinehas, a Levite, halted the plague. Subsequently, God established a “covenant of peace” with Phinehas, granting him “a lasting priesthood” (Numbers 25). The Joining of the three ‘Joinings’, לָּוֶה ,דָּבַק ,צָמַד Let us calculate the dead and the living. “22000 dead” Levites (Num. 26:62-65) joined with the “24000 dead” at Peor, plus the “23000 living” Levites equals 69000. (46000 + 23000 = 23000 x 3). With that numeric in mind, ponder the “joining צָמַד” of the two adulters by the spear of Phinehas, Num. 25:5-9. Remember that most who died that day were from the tribe of Simeon, Levi’s closest brother. Levi joined Simeon under a curse that involved the rape of their sister for 460 years (MT) before the Exodus. But here, the curse is reversed. The Simeonites die joined in sexual sin in contradistinction to Levi, who is released from the curse by an act of righteousness. Moreover, the name Levi means “joined לָּוֶה”!  According to the LXX/SP/NT, the joining/conception of Simeon and Levi occurred 299 (23 x 13) years before the joining with the Midianites women and the conquest of Canaan (1706,5 BC to 1407,6 BC). And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi. Gen. 29:34 Is the average of these numbers (22000 and 24000) and 23000 the reason Paul said: “23000 died” rather than 24000? Was it an acknowledged midrash מִדְרָשׁ at the time? As said, “460 years” is linked to sexual perversion in the biblical chronology, such as the sins of the watchers in the days of Jarod, and here again with the Midianite women (Enoch 6; Num. 25). There are 460 years from this incident unto Solomon’s palace. It was constructed both for himself and the foreign women whom he “joined דָּבַק himself to in love” (1Kings 7:8; 9:10; 11:1-25). (Enoch 10:10 appears to mean that the life span of the 200 watchers will be cut short from “500 years” to presumably 460.) This is now the third Hebrew word that means “to join,” דָּבַק,צָמַד,לָּוֶה, and all three join by multiples of 23, that is, “23 x 13” and “23 x 20” just like Solomon’s construction period of ‘7 + 13 = 20 years’. Moreover, both censuses and Solomon’s construction begin and end ‘in the 2nd and 8th month’, (1Kings 6:37-7:1). (The Levities were numbered “30 days and older”, thus tying the two censuses to the 2nd and 8th month, Num. 1:18; 3:39). Double brackets around a doomed generation Paul’s “23000” likely involved two incidents of idolatry merged as one, which is outside this study’s scope. But briefly, the 3000 killed by the Levites in Exodus 32 and the 22000 Levites of the Census commence the generation under God’s wrath and conclude it with the 24000 of Peor and 23000 of the second census of Levites. Phinehas reverses the damage his grandfather Aaron did when the 3000 died. The priesthood and highpriesthood are justified to continue as a lasting priesthood. The resulting numeric is telling. The 4600 Levites in David’s Census at Hebron (1Chron. 12:26)” The Levites were tallied at 4600 during David’s census at Hebron, about 400 years after they initially numbered 23000 upon … Continue reading Reconciling Time with the “Key of 23”