Timeline of the Bible · Creation to the Flood
Adam
Life · 4004–3074 BC
What the Bible Says
- “the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years” Genesis 5:4
- “all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years” Genesis 5:5
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
Family
- His Son
- Seth
The Years
- Born 4004 BC
- “And last of all, man was made and created after the image of God”
- Died 3074 BC
- “Now Adam the first father of all man kind, died when he had lived 930 years”
Dated by Archbishop James Ussher’s Annals of the World (1658), quoted as printed, whose dates were printed in the margins of King James Bibles for two centuries.
