Timeline of the Bible · The Patriarchs
Jacob
Life · 1836–1689 BC
What the Bible Says
- “Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them” Genesis 25:26
- “Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years” Genesis 47:28
- “the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years” Genesis 47:28
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
Family
The Years
- Born 1836 BC
- “then came forth the other, holding the former by the heele, whereupon he was called by the name of Jacob”
- Died 1689 BC
- “dyed when he had lived 147 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.
