Timeline of the Bible · Creation to the Flood

Enos

Life · 3769–2864 BC

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What the Bible Says

  • “Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos” Genesis 5:6
  • “Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years” Genesis 5:10
  • “all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years” Genesis 5:11

Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.

Family

His Father
Seth
His Son
Cainan

The Years

Born 3769 BC
“Seth now being 105 years old, begat a son”
Died 2864 BC
“died when he had lived 905 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.

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