Timeline of the Bible · Creation to the Flood
Cainan
Life · 3679–2769 BC
What the Bible Says
- “Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan” Genesis 5:9
- “Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years” Genesis 5:13
- “all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years” Genesis 5:14
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
Family
- His Father
- Enos
- His Son
- Mahalaleel
The Years
- Born 3679 BC
- “Cainan the son of Enoch was born when his father was 90 years old, [ c.”
- Died 2769 BC
- “Cainan the fourth from Adam, died”
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.
