Quran says Noah was 950 years old when flood came and yet Torah says 600 years old

Submitted by zuma (United States), Jul 17, 2017 at 01:52

37) Quran mentions that the flood came when Noah was a thousand years minus fifty years and yet Genesis 7:6 mentions that the food came when he was six hundred years old.

Quran 29:14 (Yusuf Ali translation), "We (once) sent Noah to his people, and he tarried among them a thousand years less fifty: but the Deluge overwhelmed them while they (persisted in) sin."

Genesis 7:6 (King James Version), "And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth."

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