Timeline of the Bible · The Patriarchs
Moses
Life · 1571–1451 BC
What the Bible Says
- “Moses was fourscore years old” Exodus 7:7
- “Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died” Deuteronomy 34:7
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
The Years
- Born 1571 BC
- “Jocebed, 41 years after the death of her Father Levi, bare Moses”
- Died 1451 BC
- “In the twelfth month of this year, Moses, going up out of the plain of Moab”
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.
