Originally posted by Cquhwipp
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Psalm 119:140 Thy word is very pure: therefore thy seruant loueth it.
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You seem to be saying something different.
As far as pillars are concerned of course they might hold up any shaped object, square, round, egg-shaped, okapi shaped, tetrahedron

I suppose you could list every shape earth's pillars are not holding up but it would be a long list so we usually just say they're holding up the earth. There are also pillars of heaven and in this example God advises us that beams are incorporated into the structure.
PSALM 104
1 Blesse the Lord, O my soule, O Lord my God, thou art very great: thou art clothed with honour and maiestie.
2 Who couerest thy selfe with light, as with a garment: who stretchest out the heauens like a curtaine.
3 Who layeth the beames of his chambers in the waters, who maketh the cloudes his charet: who walketh vpon the wings of the wind.
4 Who maketh his Angels spirits: his ministers a flaming fire.
5 Who laid the foundations of the earth: that it should not be remoued for euer.
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Getting back to your genealogies - they are a reliable dating system, provided the records are kept accurately which in this case they have been.
I CHRONICLES 5
17 All these were reckoned by genealogies in the dayes of Iotham king of Iudah, and in the dayes of Zeroboam king of Israel.
18 The sonnes of Reuben, and the Gadites, and halfe the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to beare buckler and sword, and to shoote with bow, and skilfull in warre, were foure and fourtie thousand, seuen hundred and threescore, that went out to the warre.
19 And they made warre with the Hagarites, with Ietur, and Nephish, and Nodab.
20 And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were deliuered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the battell, and he was intreated of them, because they put their trust in him.
21 And they tooke away their cattell: of their camels fiftie thousand, and of sheepe two hundred and fiftie thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men an hundred thousand.
22a For there fell downe many slaine, because the warre was of God.
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But that is all they are. They are not "magic" or anything and God is clear that it's wrong to obsess over them:
TITUS 3:9 But auoyd foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and striuings about the lawe; for they are vnprofitable and vaine.
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You could work it out the other way, by adding up the days of their lives starting with Genesis 5:5 and working forward. The answer would be the same.

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