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Covenant · Beginnings2348 BC

Noah leaves the ark; the rainbow covenant

Dated from the sources quoted below

True span4004 BC – AD 100
Beginnings · 4004 BC – 1996 BC · 12 eventsBeginnings4004 BC – 1996 BCThe Patriarchs · 1996 BC – 1635 BC · 34 eventsPatriarchs1996 BC – 1635 BCEgypt and the Exodus · 1635 BC – 1451 BC · 19 eventsExodus1635 BC – 1451 BCConquest and Settlement · 1451 BC – 1400 BC · 7 eventsConquest1451 BC – 1400 BCThe Judges · 1405 BC – 1095 BC · 13 eventsJudges1405 BC – 1095 BCThe United Kingdom · 1095 BC – 975 BC · 38 eventsUnited Kgdm1095 BC – 975 BCIsrael and Judah · 933 BC – 721 BC · 27 eventsIsrael & Judah933 BC – 721 BCJudah Alone · 721 BC – 586 BC · 22 eventsJudah alone721 BC – 586 BCThe Exile · 586 BC – 538 BC · 7 eventsExile586 BC – 538 BCReturn and Restoration · 538 BC – 400 BC · 13 eventsReturn538 BC – 400 BCBetween the Testaments · 400 BC – 4 BC · 8 eventsBetween400 BC – 4 BCThe Life of Jesus · 6 BC – AD 33 · 42 eventsJesus6 BC – AD 33The Apostles and the Early Church · AD 30 – AD 100 · 29 eventsThe ChurchAD 30 – AD 1004004 BC — God creates the heavens and the earth4004 BC — Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden4004 BC — The serpent, the fruit and the curse3017 BC — Enoch walks with God and is taken2948 BC — Noah is born2469 BC — God warns Noah and commands the ark2349 BC — The Flood2348 BC — Noah leaves the ark; the rainbow covenant2247 BC — The tower of Babel and the scattering of the nations1996 BC — Abram is born in Ur of the ChaldeesCain kills Abel — placed by its order in the narrativeTerah takes his family from Ur to Haran — placed by its order in the narrative
the events of this period, each at its year — this one outlinedplaced only by its order in the narrativethe whole thread →

Told in

Genesis 8:13–22In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the…Genesis 9:8–17God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,
Opening words from the World English Bible (public domain); the passage list is in-house

Who and where

NoahArarat ›
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How we know the date

Ussher's Annals (1650) gives 2348 BC (its year of the world 1657 a).

Written in-house from the sources below · every year is a quotation

The sources, word for word

“1657. a. … Deus rerum naturam, diluvio eorruptam, restauravit: carnis esuimn hominibus coneessit; atque Iridem dedit signum foederis*.”

Ussher, Annales Veteris Testamenti (1650), Latin text in The Whole Works of James Ussher, vols. VIII–XI (Dublin, 1864) · vol. VIII, AM 1657 a · gives 2348 BC

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