Timeline of the Bible · Creation to the Flood
Noah
Life · 2948–1998 BC
What the Bible Says
- “Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son” Genesis 5:28
- “Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years” Genesis 9:28
- “all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years” Genesis 9:29
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
Family
The Years
- Born 2948 BC
- “was born when his father Lamech had lived 182 years”
- Died 1998 BC
- “Noah, died when he had lived 950 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.
