Event

Creation Week

God creates the heavens and the earth and all that is in them in six days and rests on the seventh.

Sort year4004 BC

Tier 1 · CFAH anchor point

Tier 1: CFAH anchor point: 4004 B.C.

Description

Genesis 1:1–2:3. Adam and Eve are created on the sixth day; God rests on the seventh day and sanctifies it.

Scripture

Chronologies

Dates for Creation Week, CFAH first
Chronology	Date as stated	Year (BC / AM)	Citation & note
CFAH anchor point	4004 B.C. Precision: year	4004 BC	Griffith & White, "Chronological Framework of Ancient History. 4: Dating Creation and the Deluge," ARJ 16 (2023): 475–489, section "AP-30: Creation: 4004 B.C." (opens in a new tab) Also CFAH-1 Table 1 (Ussher-Jones): "4004 Creation of Mankind". Sets sort year
CFAH-1 Table 1 Ussher–Jones baseline	4004 BC (Creation of Mankind) Precision: year	4004 BC	Griffith & White, "Chronological Framework of Ancient History. 1: Problem, Data, and Methodology," ARJ 15 (2022): 377–390, section "Our Assumptions (Declared Biases)", Table 1 "Biblically derived dates from Ussher and Jones" (opens in a new tab) CFAH-1 Table 1 (Ussher-Jones biblical baseline adopted by CFAH); not a triangulated anchor point.
Ussher-Jones	0 AM, 4004 BC (year of Creation) Precision: year	4004 BC AM 0	Floyd Nolen Jones, Chart No. 1 "Creation to Jesus Christ" (© 1993), line "0 AM 4004 BC year of CREATION"; also Jones, Chronology of the Old Testament (15th ed., 2002), Chart One §B, p. 26 ("2348 + 1656 = 4004 BC") (opens in a new tab) Jones counts Creation as 0 AM (Ussher uses AM 1).
Ussher	1 AM, 710 JP, 4004 BC; evening preceding Sunday 23 Oct to Saturday 29 Oct (Julian) Precision: day	4004 BC AM 1	Ussher, Annals of the World, First Age, §1–8 (opens in a new tab)
Jordan secondary	Creation: Anno Mundi 0; 3930 B.C. (SBC) Precision: year	3930 BC AM 0	Jordan, "Egypt in Biblical History," Biblical Chronology 5:8 (December 1993), chart "Anno Mundi / B.C. (SBC) / B.C. (CCC)" at the start of the article (opens in a new tab) B.C. year is Jordan's "SBC" (strictest Biblical chronology), which takes Daniel's 70 weeks literally from Cyrus (456 B.C. instead of the conventional 536 B.C.); not comparable one-to-one with Ussher/CFAH B.C. years. Same chart: CCC "undated". Pentateuch Part 2 (BC 6:4) year list also begins "0 - Adam created". Differs from sort year by 74 yrs
Jordan (compilation) secondary	Creation 0 4010 Gen. 1 Precision: year	4010 BC AM 0	Anno Mundi Chronology Studies (unnamed compiler; a compilation of James B. Jordan's system), p. 11, chart table "Biblical History According To A.M & B.C. Dates" (opens in a new tab) Agrees with Jordan's own published AM 0. The compilation's B.C. year (4010) is AM subtracted from 4010 (its own convention: Creation 4010 B.C.); Jordan's own SBC B.C. figures differ (here 3930 B.C.). Display only; never converted or used for sorting. Differs from sort year by 6 yrs
Biblical statements (direct Scripture data)	Six days, God resting on the seventh Precision: unknown	—	Gen 1:1–2:3; Exod 20:11 (opens in a new tab) Scripture states the six-day duration; no absolute year.
MT-Gen	AM 0 (epoch) Precision: year	AM 0	Gen 1; Gen 5:1–3 (opens in a new tab) Epoch of the AM count by definition.

Disagreements & open questions

Chronologies disagree BC years differ: 4010 BC (Jordan (compilation)); 4004 BC (CFAH, CFAH-1 Table 1, Ussher-Jones, Ussher); 3930 BC (Jordan).
Chronologies disagree Anno Mundi figures differ: AM 0 (Ussher-Jones, Jordan, Jordan (compilation), MT-Gen); AM 1 (Ussher).

Flags are generated from the figures stored in the data. The master timeline still sorts by the CFAH-weighted sort year.