It's very possible that the story of creation could have been passed on through very few steps. A total of 6,008 years. We are certain from Genesis 5 and 10 that Noah was in the tenth generation from Adam because all the genealogical data is given from father to son.1 After Noah, we split into three sons (Japheth, Shem, and Ham), and from there, to everyone today. Noah (who had first hand accounts of Adam through Methuselah) knew Abraham for about 60 years. His long life and those of the patriarchs who lived before Noah is probably due to the effects of the vapor canopy that was over the earth. Methuselah lived longer than anyone else recorded in the Bible: 969 years Methuselah died the same year that the great flood waters came upon the earth, so he either died in the flood itself, or died shortly before the flood arrived. These genealogical charts are based on the Hebrew text of the book of Genesis. The genealogies in the Old Testament show that Noah died while Abraham's father was living. 1056 - Noah was born 1656 - Noah was 600 years old when floodwaters hit earth. History of Man from Adam to Christ Adam 2006 1056 0 930 Noah (10th generation from Adam) Methuselah (when he dies it shall be sent) 687 1656 The Flood (1656 years from Adam) Shem Ham Japheth 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 Age of Innocence Man and woman in the Garden. The time period from Adam to Noah is 1656 years in a tight reading of the genealogy, or 2256 years if one chooses to use the preferred Hebrew text of the Old Testament. The ark was an immense structure measuring up to 512 feet in length. The Year of birth and Year of death columns assume every generation between Adam and Abram was recorded in the Bible. If we use the three races on the 6th day scenario, we must add 2,000 years to 1,656 and 6,008, making those numbers read 3,656 and 8,008. Noah's son, Shem knew Abraham for all of Abraham's 175 years, outliving Abraham for an additional 35 years. From Adam to the flood of Noah was 1,656 years. also knew Noah for 600 years, and Noah's son Shem for about 100 years. From the flood to the year 2007 is 4,352 years. Validate by going through Biblical genealogy and chronology that Yeshua/Jesus lived on the earth around 4,000 years from the creation of Adam Learn the Biblical themes, reasons, pattern/blueprint, and stages of God's people being exiled from and returning back to the land of Israel There are ten generations from Adam to Noah and each of the stanzas look a bit like this one: When Seth had lived 105 years, he became the father of Enosh. I’ve heard this title’s question many times over the years. As a sidenote, Methuselah lived 969 years, whoch would put him dying in the same year (perhaps not during, but the year) of the flood. There were 950 years between the birth of Adam and the birth of Noah. Can we even get an estimate? Abraham to the Exile Abraham: 2165 BC — 1990 BC (Genesis 11:26; 25:8) Introduction. If we use the 5th day creation scenario, we must add 3,000 years. First-born children arrived when their parents were of the order of 100 years in age. Noah's father, Lamech, was born about eighty years before Adam died. From Adam to Noah. Adam lived another eight hundred years after the birth of Seth making him nine hundred and thirty years old at his death. Adam was alive when Lamech, Noah's father, was born, and he died just 126 years before Noah was born. Until sin caused the fall. Methuselah, (Who was 247 yrs old when Adam died.) The genealogies that connect Adam to Noah are given in Genesis 5, immediately after the story of Caine and Abel. From Adam to Noah, average human lifetimes were very nearly 1000 years. According to Genesis 5:3, Adam was 130 years old when his son Seth was born. He lived 800 years after that and was alive to witness the birth of his great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson, Lamech, the father of Noah, the one who would be saved through the flood.