Person
Noah
Noah lived 950 years by the genealogies' ages: 2948 BC – 1998 BC in the Traditional (the Modern reckoning gives no dates before Abraham).
When did Noah live?
- Modern reckoning
- no date (before Abraham)
- Traditional reckoning
- 2948–1998 BC
- Age at death
- 950, by the genealogies' ages
Ages come from the Bible's own numbers, read the traditional way (no gaps in the genealogies). In the Modern reckoning a life keeps its length and is placed from the nearest dated event. Lifespans: Theographic Bible Metadata. About the two reckonings.
Who was alive at the same time as Noah?
By the genealogies' ages (traditional reading), longest overlap first.
- Methuselah · 600 yrs
- Lamech (father of Noah) · 595 yrs
- Shem · 448 yrs
- Jared · 366 yrs
- Arphaxad · 348 yrs
- Salah · 313 yrs
- Eber (Heber) · 283 yrs
- Peleg · 239 yrs
- Mahalaleel (line of Seth) · 234 yrs
- Reu · 219 yrs
- Serug · 187 yrs
- Cainan (antediluvian patriarch) · 179 yrs
- Nahor (father of Terah) · 148 yrs
- Terah · 128 yrs
- Enos · 84 yrs
Events
- God instructs Noah to build the ark undated
- The flood undated
- The Great Flood undated
- God makes a covenant with Noah undated
Events, people and places: Theographic Bible Metadata (Robert Rouse), CC BY-SA 4.0, reshaped; dates also from the sources named on each anchor.