3924/3923 BC
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Adam
life, dates, and events
This record brings together the lifespan, dates, Scripture, and every dated event assigned to Adam.
Life record
Birth, lifespan, and death
Creation years 0–930
Genesis 5:5 · 2994/2993 BC
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Reference library
Look up Adam 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 Adam →Public-domain referenceSmith’s Bible DictionaryPeople, places, customs, and history
Find Adam →Public-domain referenceHitchcock’s Bible NamesThe name and its traditional meaning
Find Adam →Public-domain referenceNave’s Topical BibleRelated KJV passages arranged by subject
Find Adam →Public-domain referenceTorrey’s Topical TextbookRelated biblical subjects and references
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Events involving Adam
Creation year 03924/3923 BC
Adam is created
Adam’s creation begins the lifespan calculations used throughout Genesis 5.
Genesis 1:26–27; 2:7 · KJV
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”
Jasher 1:1–2
Open Creation year 0 in the Original Timeline →And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and God created man in his own image. And God formed man from the ground, and he blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul endowed with speech.
Read these verses in our Jasher reader →Creation year 9302994/2993 BC
Adam dies
Adam’s 930-year lifespan ends while eight later generations of his line are alive.
Genesis 5:5 · KJV
“And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.”
Jasher 3:14–16
Open Creation year 930 in the Original Timeline →And it was in the fifty-sixth year of the life of Lamech when Adam died; nine hundred and thirty years old was he at his death, and his two sons, with Enoch and Methuselah his son, buried him with great pomp, as at the burial of kings, in the cave which God had told him. And in that place all the sons of men made a great mourning and weeping on account of Adam; it has therefore become a custom among the sons of men to this day. And Adam died because he ate of the tree of knowledge; he and his children after him, as the Lord God had spoken.
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