Mahalaleel ben Cainan


 * 5th Patriarch of Genesis
 * Genesis 5:12-17
 * Born 395 / Died 1290 (Years after Adam)

Biography
Jared or Jered (Hebrew: יֶרֶד ,יָרֶד Yāreḏ, Yereḏ - "to descend"; Arabic: أَليَارَد‎ al-Yārad), in the Book of Genesis, was a sixth-generation descendant of Adam and Eve. His primary history is recounted in Genesis 5:18–20.

Bible Narrative
Jared is mentioned in Genesis 5:12-17, as part of the genealogy linking Adam to Noah. The following is taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

12 And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel: 13 And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters: 14 And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died. 15 And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared: 16 And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters: 17 And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.

- [Genesis 5:12-17 KJV

Genesis Timeline
Jared was born 395 years after the creation of Adam and died in 1290 (aged 895 years).

Book of Jubilees Narrative
In the apocryphal Book of Jubilees (Chapter 4), his mother's name is Dinah.

Jubilees states that Jared married a woman whose name is variously spelled as Bereka, Baraka, and Barakah, and the Bible speaks of Jared having become father to other sons and daughters (Genesis 5:13). Of those children, only Enoch is named specifically, born when Jared was 162 years old (Genesis 5:18, 5:22a, 5:24, Hebrews 11:5b, Jude 14–15). Enoch went on to marry Edna, according to Jubilees, and the sole named grandchild of Jared is Enoch's son Methuselah, the longest-living human mentioned in the Bible (Genesis 5:18, 5:21, 5:27).

Marriage and Family

 * Book of Genesis