CHRONOLOGY OF GENERATIONS FROM SHEM TO ABRAHAM AND HIS FAMILY

Years After the Flood

2 Arpachshad is born to Shem, who is 100 years old

37. Shelah is born to Arpachshad.

67. Eber is born to Arpachshad

101. Peleg is born to Eber

131. Reu is born to Peleg

163. Serug is born to Reu

193. Nahor is born to Serug

226. Terah is born to Nahor

296. Abram (later Abraham), Nahor and Haran are born to Terah

340. Peleg dies

345. Nahor dies

350 Noah dies

Mid-300s Terah moves from the wealth city of Ur towards the Promised Land with Abram and his wife Sarai (later Sarah), Nahor and his wife Milcah, and Lot, the son of the now deceased Haran. However, they only get as far as the land of Haran.

370 Reu dies

371. God calls Abram to migrate to the Promised Land. Lot and his family join him.

382 Ishmael is born to Abraham and Hagar, Sarah's handmaid

393 Serug dies

396. Isaac is born to Abraham and Sarah

431 Terah dies

436. Isaac marries Rebekah

440 Arpachshad dies

456. Jacob and Esau are born to Isaac

470 Shelah dies

502 Shem dies

516. Isaac dies

531 Eber dies

586. Jacob and the entire family go to Egypt

603 Jacob dies