Timeline of the Bible · The Patriarchs
Jacob Goes Down into Egypt
Event · 1706 BC
What the Bible Says
- “The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years” Genesis 47:9
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
The Years
- The Year 1706 BC
- “in the beginning of the third year of the famine, went down into Egypt, being then 130 years old”
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.
