2868/2867 BC
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Noah
life, dates, and events
This record brings together the lifespan, dates, Scripture, and every dated event assigned to Noah.
Life record
Birth, lifespan, and death
Creation years 1056–2006
Genesis 9:28–29 · 1918/1917 BC
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Look up Noah in the study works
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Public-domain referenceEaston’s Bible Dictionary
Dictionary and historical background
Find Noah →Public-domain referenceSmith’s Bible DictionaryPeople, places, customs, and history
Find Noah →Public-domain referenceHitchcock’s Bible NamesThe name and its traditional meaning
Find Noah →Public-domain referenceNave’s Topical BibleRelated KJV passages arranged by subject
Find Noah →Public-domain referenceTorrey’s Topical TextbookRelated biblical subjects and references
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Events involving Noah
Creation year 10562868/2867 BC
Noah is born
Lamech was born in Creation year 874. Adding 182 years places Noah’s birth in year 1056.
Genesis 5:28–29 · KJV
“And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son: And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.”
Jasher 4:13–14
Open Creation year 1056 in the Original Timeline →And the wife of Lamech conceived and bare him a son at that time, at the revolution of the year. And Methuselah called his name Noah, saying, The earth was in his days at rest and free from corruption, and Lamech his father called his name Menachem, saying, This one shall comfort us in our works and miserable toil in the earth, which God had cursed.
Read these verses in our Jasher reader →Creation year 15362388/2387 BC
God gives a 120-year warning
Noah’s 480th year is Creation year 1536: 1056 + 480 = 1536, exactly 120 years before the Flood in 1656.
Genesis 6:3 · KJV
“And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.”
Jasher 5:6–11
Open Creation year 1536 in the Original Timeline →God said unto Noah and Methuselah, saying, Speak ye, and proclaim to the sons of men, saying, Thus saith the Lord, return from your evil ways and forsake your works. For thus saith the Lord, Behold I give you a period of one hundred and twenty years. And Noah and Methuselah spoke all the words of the Lord to the sons of men, day after day.
Read these verses in our Jasher reader →Creation year 15542370/2369 BC
Noah takes Naamah as wife
The KJV mentions Noah’s wife but does not name her. Jasher names her Naamah and places the marriage when Noah was 498: 1056 + 498 = 1554.
Genesis 7:13 · KJV
“In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;”
Jasher 5:14–16
Open Creation year 1554 in the Original Timeline →And the Lord said unto Noah, Take unto thee a wife, and beget children, for I have seen thee righteous before me in this generation. And Noah went and took a wife, and he chose Naamah the daughter of Enoch. And Noah was four hundred and ninety-eight years old, when he took Naamah for a wife.
Read these verses in our Jasher reader →Creation year 16502274/2273 BC
Ark construction begins
Jasher says Noah began the ark in his 595th year and built it in five years. Noah’s 595th year begins in Creation year 1650.
Genesis 6:13–16 · KJV
“And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.”
Jasher 5:25–34
Open Creation year 1650 in the Original Timeline →The Lord said to Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me. And do thou take unto thee gopher wood, and go to a certain place and make a large ark. And Noah rose up, and he made the ark, in the place where God had commanded him. In his five hundred and ninety-fifth year Noah commenced to make the ark, and he made the ark in five years.
Read these verses in our Jasher reader →Creation year 16562268/2267 BC
The Flood begins
Noah’s 600th year is Creation year 1656. Scripture further dates the beginning to the seventeenth day of the second month.
Genesis 7:11–12 · KJV
“In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.”
Jasher 6:13–15
Open Creation year 1656 in the Original Timeline →And at the end of seven days, in the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, the waters of the flood were upon the earth. And all the fountains of the deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened, and the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. And the Lord shut him in.
Read these verses in our Jasher reader →Creation year 16562268/2267 BC
Ark rests on Ararat
The ark rests on Ararat in the seventh month of the Flood year, before the next Creation year begins at Tishri.
Genesis 8:4 · KJV
“And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.”
Jasher 6:32–35
Open Creation year 1656 in the Original Timeline →And the Lord remembered Noah. And a wind passed over the earth, and the waters were still and the ark rested. And the waters decreased in those days, and the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.
Read these verses in our Jasher reader →Creation year 16572267/2266 BC
Noah leaves the ark
The earth is declared dry on the twenty-seventh day of the second month in Noah’s 601st year, Creation year 1657.
Genesis 8:14–19 · KJV
“And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried. And God spake unto Noah, saying, Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.”
Jasher 6:38–42
Open Creation year 1657 in the Original Timeline →At the revolution of the year, when a full year was completed to Noah's dwelling in the ark, the waters were dried from off the earth. On the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was dry. And the day came that the Lord told them to go out, and they all went out from the ark.
Read these verses in our Jasher reader →Creation year 16572267/2266 BC
The rainbow covenant
After Noah leaves the ark, God establishes the covenant and gives the bow in the cloud as its sign.
Genesis 9:12–13 · KJV
“And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.”
Jasher 6:41–42
Open Creation year 1657 in the Original Timeline →Noah and his sons dwelt in the land that God had told them, and they served the Lord all their days, and the Lord blessed Noah and his sons on their going out from the ark. And he said to them, Be fruitful and fill all the earth.
Read these verses in our Jasher reader →Creation year 20061918/1917 BC
Noah dies
Noah’s 950 years from Creation year 1056 end in year 2006.
Genesis 9:28–29 · KJV
“And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.”
Jasher 6:43
Open Creation year 2006 in the Original Timeline →And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.
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