Bible Chronology, Gen. V.
ADAM was born A. M. 1; Seth, 130; Enos, 235. Adam died A. M. 930; Seth, 1042; Enos, 1140. Adam, Seth, and Enos, lived to see Lamech, the 9th from Adam. Lamech was 56 years old when Adam died, 168 when Seth died, 266 years old when Enos died. Canaan, the 4th from Adam, was born A. M. 325; Mahalaleel, 395; Jared, 460. Canaan died A. M. 1235, having lived 910 years. Mahalaleel lived 895 years, and died A. M. 1290. Jared died A. M. 1422 having lived 962 years. These three lived contemporary with Noah, the 10th generation. They died in the 179th, 234th, and 366th, years of Noah, respectively. Enoch, the seventh from Adam, was born A. M. 622, and lived 365 years on this earth. Then he was translated A. M. 987, 669 years before the flood. Methuselah, the 8th, was born A. M. 687, lived 969 years, and died A. M. 1656. In the same year the flood came. Lamech, the 9th, was born A. M. 874, and lived 777 years till A. M. 1651. He died five years before the flood. Noah, the tenth from Adam, being born A. M. 1056, lived 600 years till the flood, A. M. 1656. He died A. M. 2006, being 950 years old. Thus Noah, the last of the tenth generation, lived till more than half this world's history B. C. was finished. The year when Noah died, A. M. 2006, is called by the common chronology, B. C. 1998, instead of B. C. 1994, which would make just 4000 years. Consequently they begin the chronology called A. D., four years after Christ was born. Thus you will see in the Bible that the year of Christ's baptism is called A. D. 27 when he was 30 years old, the age appointed for service in the ministry and tabernacle. Num. 4: 3, 35, 43.—Sel.