Timeline of the Bible · Creation to the Flood
Enoch
Life · 3382–3017 BC
What the Bible Says
- “Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch” Genesis 5:18
- “Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years” Genesis 5:22
- “all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years” Genesis 5:23
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
Family
- His Father
- Jared
- His Son
- Methuselah
The Years
- Born 3382 BC
- “Enoch was borne when his father Jared had lived 162 years, [ c.”
- Translated 3017 BC
- “God translated him in an instant”
He did not die: "Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him" (Genesis 5:24; Hebrews 11:5).
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.
