Timeline of the Bible · The Flood to Abram
Salah
Life · 2311–1878 BC
What the Bible Says
- “Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah” Genesis 11:12
- “Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years” Genesis 11:15
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
Family
The Years
- Born 2311 BC
- “Salah was born when his father Arphaxad, had lived 35 years”
- Died 1878 BC
- “Salah the fourth 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.
