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Genesis 5
1 ¶ This is the book of the genealogy of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.
2 He created them male and female, and blessed them and called them Mankind in the day they were created.
3 And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
4 After he begot Seth, the days of Adam were eight hundred years; and he had sons and daughters.
5 So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.
6 ¶ Seth lived one hundred and five years, and begot Enosh.
Name Year Born Age Son Age @ Death Yr Died
God eternal Adam God is life
Adam 0 130 Seth 930 930
Seth 130 105 Enos 912 1042
Enos 235 90 Cainan 905 1140
Cainan 325 70 Mahalaleel 910 1235
Mahalaleel 395 65 Jared 895 1290
Jared 460 162 Enoch 962 1422
Enoch * 622 65 Methuselah 365 987
Methuselah 687 187 Lamech 969 1656
Lamech 874 182 Noah 777 1651
Noah 1056 500 H/S/J 950 2006
*Gen 5:24 And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.
Hebrews 11:5 By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, "and was not found, because God had taken him"; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
Genesis 7:11 Noah entered the ark in the 600th year of his life which was 1656 years after God created Adam.
Genesis 11:10 This is the genealogy of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood.
Name Year Born Age Son Age @ Death Yr Died
Shem 1558 100 Arphaxad 600 2158
Arphaxad 1658 35 Salah 438 2096
Salah 1693 30 Eber 433 2126
Eber 1723 34 Peleg 464 2187
Peleg 1757 30 Reu 239 1996
Reu 1787 32 Serug 239 2049
Serug 1819 30 Nahor 230 2049
Nahor 1849 29 Terah 148 1997
Terah 1878 70 Abram 205 2083
Abram 1948 100 Isaac 175 2123
Isaac 2048 60 Jacob/Esau 180 2228
Jacob 2108 90 Joseph 147 2255
Joseph 2198 ? Eph/Man 110 2308
It is interesting to realize that the history of the creation of man did not have to be passed through 20 different people to get the story to Abraham, the 21st person in the genealogy. Rather it went from:
Adam told it to Methuselah for 243 years
Methuselah told it to Shem for 98 years
Shem told it to Abraham for 50 years before Abraham moved to Haran
Shem outlived Abraham by 35 years
Jacob was already 50 years old when Shem died.
Abraham was taught by Shem, the man on the ark.
Shem was taught by Methuselah – he was the oldest man in the Bible but he didn’t outlive his father.
Methuselah was taught by the guy with no belly button.
The factual account of creation only passed through two people to get to Abraham. It is an amazing realization to see how God protected and preserved the account of creation.
More Interesting Thoughts
Genesis 16:16 Abraham was 86 years old when Ishmael was born: 2034
Abraham died 35 years before Shem died.
Gen 12:4 Abraham was 75 when he left Haran: 2023
Gen 17:24 Abraham was 99 years old when he was circumcised: 2047
This is the same year that Sodom & Gomorrah were destroyed!
Gen 17:17 Sarah was 90 when Abraham was 100 yrs old
Gen 23:1 Sarah was 127 when she died: 2085 (born in 1958)
Gen 25:20 Isaac was 40 when he married Rebekah: 2088
Gen 47:9 Jacob was 130 when he took 70 of his descendants, known as the household of Israel, into Egypt in the year 2238
The children were to stay in bondage in Egypt for 430 years or until 2668
Moses was 80 years old when the children of Israel came out of Egypt, so he was born in the year 2588
Deut 34:7 Moses lived to be 120 yrs old, so he died in 2708.
Joshua 14:7-10 Caleb was 40 yrs old at Kadesh-Barnea: 2668/69 and he was 85 when he took Hebron for an inheritance from God in 2713/14. So conquering the land of Canaan lasted about 5 years up to that time.
Note: All dates are approximate, not knowing the exact times of each year, but – these dates are strictly based on scripture references.
