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Pre and Post-flood Patriarchs.

 

Genesis Chapters 5 and 11

 

There follows a chart showing the ages of the Patriarchs both before and after the Universal Flood. These details are from the fifth and eleventh chapters of the Book of Genesis. Each reference is given in the NOTES column.

The Years of The Patriarchs

name

age at first child

age afterwards age at death years from Adam NOTES

 

       

  Genesis

ADAM

130 800 930 0

5:3

SETH

105 807 912 130  5.6

ENOS

90 815 905 235  5:9

CAINAN

70 840 910 325  5:12

MAHALALEEL

65 830 895 395  5:15

JARED

162 800 962 460  5:18

ENOCH

65 300 365  622  5:21

METHUSELAH

187 782 969 687  5:25

LAMECH

182 595 777 874

 5:28

NOAH

502 448 950 1056  5:32

NOAH at start of Flood Genesis 7:6

599 at start of flood flood 1 year. lived 350 years after 950   9:28 and 29

TOTAL to flood

1655  

 

 

The Universal Flood one year  Gen 8:13

TOTAL from Adam to birth of Shem

1558

   

1558

 

SHEM 97yrs at start of flood

100 500 600 1558 11.10

ARPHAXAD    born two years after the Flood

35 403 438 1658 11:12

SALAH

30 403 433 1693 11:14

EBER

34 430 464 1723 11:16

PELEG

30 209 239 1757 11:18

REU

32 207 239 1787 11:20

SERUG

30 200 230 1819 11:22

NAHOR

29 119 148 1849 11:24

TERAH

70 135 205 1878

11:26 & 32

ABRAM.  departed from Haran when 75yrs

100 75 175 1948

21:5

ISAAC

60 120 180 2048

25:26 & 35:28

JACOB & ESAU

 

2108

 

   

TOTAL from Shem to birth of Jacob

550

   

TOTAL from Adam to birth of Jacob

2108

[4 x17 x 31]

   

TOTAL from Adam to Israel planting seed in The Land. Jubilee

2108 + 580 = 2688

[6 x 7 x 8 x 8]

       
           

As a rough guide to the pattern of the ages of the patriarchs, the two charts below indicate by the patterns formed their reduction in life span by the catastrophic changes of conditions and climate. Firstly by the Universal Flood and secondly by the division of Eden in the formation of the continents. Please be aware that the scale of ages is bigger in the second chart.

 

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