Person · 460–1422 AM · 3301 BCE — 2339 BCE
Yered ירד
the sixth generation from Adam, father of Chanoch
Yered was born to Mahalalel in his sixty-fifth year and lived nine hundred and sixty-two years—the second longest life in the whole Torah after Metushelach.
He is the father of Chanoch. The father outlived the son by four hundred and thirty-five years: Chanoch was taken in 987, Yered died in 1422. In the inventory of the fifth chapter this is the only case where the father remains and the son is gone.
He died two hundred and thirty-four years before the Flood, having seen the birth of Noach and of Noach's father Lemech.
On the timeline
325 · 3436 BCEThe Births of Kenan, Mahalalel and Yered1140 · 2621 BCEThe Deaths of Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel and Yered
Related
Sources
Tanakh
- Bereshit 5:15–20 — the years of birth and life in the inventory of chapter five
- I Chronicles 1:1–4 — the same line from Adam to the sons of Noah, repeated in the Writings a thousand years after the Torah
Basis: stated in the Tanakh.