EBF Reply using a Transcript of Mr. Camping from a FR Open Forum from Aug. 2009
A man commented on EBF's video "4900 BC Time Paths":
"I can't believe that Mr Camping never read Genesis 46:11 where it shows that Kohath was already born when he went into Egypt with his father Levi so that perfect tally that Mr Camping taught is totally wrong there's not a patriarchal calendar going on there that he taught in numerous of his books"
EBF reply
EBF referencing an Open Forum transcription of a caller asking about Genesis 46:11 in August of 2009:
"He read it and discussed it in his writings as well as on the Open Forum program. Here is a transcription excerpt taken from the August 7th, 2009 Open Forum with Mr. Camping:
"Welcome to Open Forum.
Caller: Hi, would you please look at Genesis 46:11?
Mr. Camping: Genesis 46:11. There we read, 46:11, "And the son of Levi, Gershon Kohath, and Marari, the sons of Levi, Gershon Kohath, and Marari, and the sons of Judah, and so on." Now what is your question?
Caller: I have one question and I have a verse to compare with this one. The question is, if Kohath was the son of Levi, and he was the next patriarchal generation, and Levi and Kohath both entered Egypt together at the same time, then wouldn't that mean that the 430 years would be less because you'd have overlap between Levi and Kohath?
Mr. Camping: Yeah, but what really both entered Egypt at the same time, first of all, when you look at those statements in the Bible, and they're found two or three different places, and they all have different numbers.
One is 70, another place is 75, and there are different groups of people also.
That is because we're going to talk about Kohath and Amoram and Levi entering in.
It was not talking about Kohath and Amoram as already being living, but they were in the loins of Jacob when they came in.
In other words, God gave us some really strange and complicated information to keep us from working through that timeline until it was time for us to know.
When we finally learned how God did all of this, then we find, and my, that was a product of just a lot of very, very careful work in the Bible.
Then we find that indeed, it all fits together.
For example, again and again, you'll find in the Bible that so and so begat someone else, begat.
Ordinarily, we think of begat as gave birth to, but the way God uses the word begat in the Bible, it simply means was the progenitor of.
That one that he begat could be an immediate son, or a grandson, or a great-grandson, or a great-great-grandson.
That was one of the ways in which God made it very confusing.
But once we learned that the word begat meant progenitor, then it helped unravel some very, very difficult language.
These are the ways in which God has hidden this information."