Adam lived contemporary with eight generations of his descendants.
Adam and Enoch would converse with Methuselah for 243 years.
Seth was contemporary with all the Antediluvians except Noah.
Enoch’s Translation was 55 years before the death of Seth.
Methuselah would converse with Noah for 600 years.
Noah lived and walked with six generations of his forefathers.
Noah would hold converse with Abram for over 56 years.
Terah and his family were linked in faith with Noah.
Haran, refusing to go forth at Babel, died in the presence of his father.
Peleg was the first to claim possession of earth and rule by the sword.
Abram was 99 years old when God confirmed His promise to him in Ur.
Shem outlived Abraham 35 years, and died the year of Joseph’s birth.
Abram’s sojourn in Egypt gave him Hagar, the mother of Ishmael.
Isaac died in the first of Egypt’s seven years of plenty.
Rachel died and Benjamin was born, in the year that Joseph was sold.
Jacob and his sons came into Egypt when Joseph was eighty years old.
Israel’s bondage to Pharaoh began in the year of Joseph’s death.
Levi to Moses, there were four generations, extending over 430 years.