Timeline of the Bible · The Patriarchs
Joseph
Life · 1745–1635 BC
What the Bible Says
- “Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old” Genesis 50:26
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
Family
- His Father
- Jacob
The Years
- Born 1745 BC
- “Rachel, afterward by the blessing of God, proving fruitfull, bare Ioseph”
- Died 1635 BC
- “and gave order that his bones might be carried with them, and then departed this life”
Joseph was thirty when he stood before Pharaoh (Genesis 41:46); after the seven years of plenty and two of famine (Genesis 45:6), Jacob came into Egypt an hundred and thirty years old (Genesis 47:9). So Jacob was ninety and one when Joseph was born.
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.
