Timeline of the Bible · Creation to the Flood
Jared
Life · 3544–2582 BC
What the Bible Says
- “Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared” Genesis 5:15
- “Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years” Genesis 5:19
- “all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years” Genesis 5:20
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
Family
- His Father
- Mahalaleel
- His Son
- Enoch
The Years
- Born 3544 BC
- “Jared was born when his father Mahalaleel had lived 65 years, [ c.”
- Died 2582 BC
- “Iared, the sixth from Adam, dyed”
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.
