Dates of Events Recorded in the Book of Genesis, According to Hales, Ussher, and Keil.

Column 1—Ussher, Before Christ; Column 2—Ussher. Year of the World; Column 3—Event; Column 4—Hales, Before Christ; Column 5—Hales, Year of the World; Column 6—Keil, Year after the immigration into—Canaan

Ussher B.C. Ussher Y.W. Event Hales B.C. Hales Y.W. Keil Y.C. 4004 1 The Creation 5411 1 3874 130 Birth of Seth 5181 230 3769 235 Bith of Enos 4976 435 3679 325 Birth of Cainan 4786 625 3609 395 Bith of Mahaleel 4616 795 3074 930 Death of Adam 4481 930 3544 460 Birth of Jared 4451 960 3382 622 Birth of Enoch 4289 1122 3317 687 Birth of Methuselah 4124 1287 3130 874 Birth of Lamech 3937 1474 3017 987 Translation of Enoch 3914 1487 2948 1056 Birth of Noah 3755 1656 2348 1656 Deluge 3155 2256 2346 1658 Birth of Arphaxad 3153 2258 2311 1693 Birth of Salah 3018 2393 2281 1723 Birth of Heber 2888 2523 2247 1757 Birth of Pelag 2754 2657 2233 1771 Confusion of Tongues 2554 2857 2217 1787 Birth of Reu 2624 2787 2185 1819 Birth of Serug 2492 2919 2155 1849 Birth of Nahor 2362 3049 2126 1878 Birth of Terah 2283 3128 1998 2006 Death of Noah 2805 2606 1996 2008 Birth of Abram 2153 3258 1921 2083 Abram in Canaan 2078 3333 1 1910 2094 Birth of Ismael 2067 3344 11 Beg of Circumcision 24 1896 2108 Birth of Isaac 2053 3358 25 Death of Sarah 62 1856 2148 Marriage of Isaac 2013 3398 65 1836 2168 Birth of Esau & Jacob 1993 3418 85 Death of Abraham 100 Esau’s Marriage 125 Death of Ishmael 1916 3495 148 1760 Jacob to Padan Aram 162 Jacob’s Marriage 169 1745 2259 Birth of Joseph 1902 3509 176 1739 2265 Jacob to Canaan 1896 3515 182 1732 2272 Jacob at Hebron 1889 3522 192 1728 2276 Joseph sold into Egypt 1885 3526 193 1716 2288 Death of Isaac 1873 3538 205 1715 2289 Joseph Gov. of Egypt 1872 3539 206 1706 2298 Jacob goes to Egypt 1863 3548 215 1689 2315 Death of Jacob 1846 3565 232 1635 2369 Death of Joseph 1792 3619 286

The reader will find in Ch. 10, some explanations regarding the systems of Chronology by Ussher and Hales. Hales professes to follow the text of the Greek or LXX translation of the Old Testament, correcting it by the Jewish historian Josephus, whose dates, however, are often manifestly very inaccurate. Ussher professes to follow the Hebrew text. The modern Jewish chronology places the birth of Isaac, when Abraham was one hundred years old, in the year of the world 2048. With this latter very nearly agrees the chronology adopted by a celebrated modern German commentator, Professor Keil, who places it only two years earlier, viz. in 2046. We have given in the last column, according to the chronology of Keil, the succession of events after the migration of Abram into Canaan. Keil places the latter event in the year of the world 2021, and before Christ 2137. From this the reader will easily be able to calculate all the other dates according to the chronology of Keil, which on the whole seems to us the most reliable. He bases it on the following data: according to 1 Kings 6:1, the Temple of Solomon was built 480 years after the Exodus, while the deportation of Israel into Babylon took place 406 years after the building of the Temple, that is, in all, 886 years after the Exodus. But as the commencement of the Exile must have fallen in the year 606 before Christ, we have the year 1492 before Christ (or 2666 after the Creation) as that of the Exodus. The year 606 before Christ is fixed as that of the commencement of the Babylonish exile, because it ended after 70 years, in the first year of the sole reign of Cyrus, which we know to have been the year 536 before Christ.BHOTV1 6.1