begats

If you are reading this and do not understand why taking out the begats is a problem, feel free to ask...

Headline Writer Gives Miss Snark An Attack of the Vapors Miss Snark 2005

Much of this Seth-to-Abraham period he described only in a catalog of names (the "begats").

Stanley Knick, Ph.D.: Jesus and the Evolution of the Species Ph.D. Stanley Knick 2010

If it's so bad, then how come there are so many "begats" listed in the Bible?

Campaigning in Kentucky, Clinton hears sermon on infidelity 2008

Particularly at the beginning of the book, when Frazier's run-through of family names sounds all too much like the Biblical "begats," one is tempted to say, well, this may be interesting to you, Ian Frazier, but it's your family, not mine.

In The Mom And Dad Museum 2008

And counting all those "begats" and multi-hundred year lifespans of Biblical characters, we come up with 4004 B.C.E. as the year in which God created the world.

Posthuman Blues Mac 2007

Think of it as though a Bible had been rewritten leaving out all the "begats".

Headline Writer Gives Miss Snark An Attack of the Vapors Miss Snark 2005

Now, this book goes into a lot of "begats": "And Arphax'ad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber" and so on and so on and so on.

Henry Drummond Questions Matthew Harrison Brady on the Bible 1960

This, supplemented by a quick intuition and a correct musical ear, had aided him to really remarkable powers of interpretation, and there was now, ten years later, no chapter in the entire Bible which he hesitated to read aloud, such as contained long strings of impossible names hung upon a chain of "begats" being his favorite achievements.

Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886

Ussher (not Usher), who was an Anglican bishop in Ireland, counted the "begats" in Genesis, assuming that each "begat," or generation, was a uniform 20 years.

Wired Campus 2010

Ussher (not Usher), who was an Anglican bishop in Ireland, counted the "begats" in Genesis, assuming that each "begat," or generation, was a uniform 20 years.

Wired Campus 2010