Timeline of the Bible · The Patriarchs
Israel in Egypt
Event · 1706–1491 BC
The Years
- Began 1706 BC
- “in the beginning of the third year of the famine, went down into Egypt, being then 130 years old”
- Ended 1491 BC
- “being the compleat terme of 430 years, from the first pilgrimage of their ancestors”
From Jacob’s coming into Egypt to the Exodus: two hundred and fifteen years, the second half of the four hundred and thirty years of the sojourning (Exodus 12:40), as Ussher counts them from Abram’s departure out of Haran.
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.
