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How Could Moses Have Accurately Recorded the Events of Genesis?

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An angel prevents the sacrifice of Isaac. Abraham and Isaac, Rembrandt, 1634 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Genesis 26:1–6 Now there was a famine in the land—besides the previous famine in Abraham ’s time—and Isaac went to Abimelek king of the Philistines in Gerar . 2 The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt ; live in the land where I tell you to live. 3 Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham. 4 I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring[ a ] all nations on earth will be blessed,[ b ] 5 because Abraham obeyed me and did everything I required of him, keeping my commands, my decrees and my instructions.” 6 So Isaac stayed in Gerar. The events recorded in Genesis occurred hundreds of years before Moses was born, yet the Bible att