the oldest, and non-talmudic approved, manuscripts say it was like 7600+ years since adam. edomites changed it over time starting at zippor because of a prophecy they edited out about christ in deuteronomy and them not having an answer for who melchizedek was, so they edited all the genealogies so they could say that shem was melchizedek, who according to all the oldest manuscripts was long dead before him meeting with abram. also the two 'accounts' of creation ages in genesis 1 from what is in the next chapter of 2:18 onwards are at variance with each other, which wouldn't be the case if it was just retelling the same thing with more clarifying details. the first set of ages was probably brown and black hunter gatherers, the second set in chapter 2 with the first agricultural-inclined race who's name means ruddy i.e. white, was afterwards. there's no way to truthfully make any claim to how old something was before adam based off of scripture
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