Timeline of the Bible · The Flood to Abram

Nahor

Life · 2155–2007 BC

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What the Bible Says

  • “Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor” Genesis 11:22
  • “Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years” Genesis 11:25

Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.

Family

His Father
Serug
His Son
Terah

The Years

Born 2155 BC
“Nachor was born when Saruch his father had lived 30 years, [ Gen.”
Died 2007 BC
“Nachor the 9 from Noah, died”

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.

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