Timeline of the Bible · The Flood to Abram
Serug
Life · 2185–1955 BC
What the Bible Says
- “Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug” Genesis 11:20
- “Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years” Genesis 11:23
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
Family
The Years
- Born 2185 BC
- “Serug, or Saruch, was born when Ragau had lived 32 years”
- Died 1955 BC
- “Serug or Saruch, the 8 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.
