1976/1975 BC
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Abraham
life, dates, and events
This record brings together the lifespan, dates, Scripture, and every dated event assigned to Abraham.
Life record
Birth, lifespan, and death
Creation years 1948–2123
Genesis 25:7–10 · 1801/1800 BC
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Look up Abraham in the study works
These links search five public-domain reference works for this person. An author’s definition or conclusion is a study aid—not Scripture—and should be examined against the KJV text.
Public-domain referenceEaston’s Bible Dictionary
Dictionary and historical background
Find Abraham →Public-domain referenceSmith’s Bible DictionaryPeople, places, customs, and history
Find Abraham →Public-domain referenceHitchcock’s Bible NamesThe name and its traditional meaning
Find Abraham →Public-domain referenceNave’s Topical BibleRelated KJV passages arranged by subject
Find Abraham →Public-domain referenceTorrey’s Topical TextbookRelated biblical subjects and references
Find Abraham →Dated record
Events involving Abraham
Creation year 20231901/1900 BC
Abram enters Canaan
Abram was born in year 1948; his seventy-fifth year places this journey in year 2023.
Genesis 12:1–5 · KJV
“So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.”
Jasher 13:3–5
Open Creation year 2023 in the Original Timeline →The Lord appeared to Abram in Haran and said to him, Arise, take thy wife and all belonging to thee and go to the land of Canaan.
Read these verses in our Jasher reader →Creation year 20241900/1899 BC
Abram goes into Egypt
The famine follows Abram’s entrance into Canaan and sends his household temporarily into Egypt.
Genesis 12:10 · KJV
“And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.”
Jasher 15:1–2
Open Creation year 2024 in the Original Timeline →In that year there was a heavy famine throughout the land of Canaan, and Abram went down to Egypt on account of the famine.
Read these verses in our Jasher reader →Creation year 20471877/1876 BC
Abraham receives circumcision
Abraham’s ninety-ninth year is Creation year 2047.
Genesis 17:1, 24 · KJV
“And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram. And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.”
Jasher 17:17
Open Creation year 2047 in the Original Timeline →And Abram and Ishmael his son and all the males of his household were circumcised.
Read these verses in our Jasher reader →Creation year 20481876/1875 BC
Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed
The destruction is placed in the same broad patriarchal sequence as the promised birth of Isaac.
Genesis 19:24–25 · KJV
“Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain.”
Jasher 19:24–25
Open Creation year 2048 in the Original Timeline →The Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah and upon all these cities brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.
Read these verses in our Jasher reader →Creation year 21231801/1800 BC
Abraham dies
Abraham’s 175 years end in Creation year 2123.
Genesis 25:7–8 · KJV
“And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years. Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age.”
Jasher 26:29
Open Creation year 2123 in the Original Timeline →Abraham died in that year, in the fifteenth year of the life of Jacob and Esau; and all the days of Abraham were one hundred and seventy-five years.
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