Timeline of the Bible · Creation to the Flood
Seth
Life · 3874–2962 BC
What the Bible Says
- “Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son” Genesis 5:3
- “Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years” Genesis 5:7
- “all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years” Genesis 5:8
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
Family
The Years
- Born 3874 BC
- “God gave Eve another son in his stead; whence his name was called Seth”
- Died 2962 BC
- “Seth the son of Adam died when he had lived 912 years, [ c.”
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.
