Event

Jacob and his family go down to Egypt (AM 2298)

Jacob, aged 130, goes down to Egypt with his family of seventy in the second year of the famine (Gen 45:6; 46; 47:9).

Sort year1706 BC

Tier 2 · CFAH-1 Table 1 (Ussher–Jones baseline)

Tier 2: CFAH-1 Table 1 (Ussher-Jones baseline): 1706 BC (no higher-tier year available).

Description

God told Jacob at Beersheba not to fear going down to Egypt (Gen 46:1-4). Pharaoh settled the family in Goshen. Jones and Jordan both note this is exactly 215 years after Abraham entered Canaan, and 215 before the Exodus.

Scripture

Chronologies

Dates for Jacob and his family go down to Egypt (AM 2298), CFAH first
Chronology	Date as stated	Year (BC / AM)	Citation & note
CFAH-1 Table 1 Ussher–Jones baseline	1706 BC (Jacob enters Egypt in second year of famine) Precision: year	1706 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. Sets sort year
Ussher-Jones	BC 1706 (2298 AM) Precision: year	1706 BC AM 2298	Jones, Chronology of the Old Testament (15th ed., 2002), p. 54 ("1836 – 130 = 1706 BC (Jacob comes to Egypt)") (opens in a new tab)
Ussher	2298b AM, 1706 BC Precision: year	1706 BC AM 2298	Ussher, Annals of the World, Third Age §138 (paragraph numbering of the modern transcription) (opens in a new tab) Ussher: "in the beginning of the third year of the famine when Jacob was 130 years old". CFAH-1 Table 1 says the second year (Gen 45:6, "these two years hath the famine been").
Jordan secondary	2298 - After two visits by his sons to Egypt, Jacob moves his household to Goshen (Gen. 45:6). This is exactly 215 years after Abram Precision: year	AM 2298	Jordan, "The Chronology of the Pentateuch (Part 5)," Biblical Chronology 6:7 (July 1994), §14 "Joseph and Judah" (year list) (opens in a new tab)
Jordan (compilation) secondary	2298 AM Jacob enters Goshen Egypt at 130 yrs old (47:9,28) Precision: year	AM 2298	Anno Mundi Chronology Studies (unnamed compiler; a compilation of James B. Jordan's system), p. 5, chart "Chronology From Abraham’s Death to Joseph’s Death" (opens in a new tab) Agrees with Jordan's own published AM 2298.
MT-Gen	AM 2298 Precision: year	AM 2298	Gen 47:9 (Jacob 130 before Pharaoh): 2168 + 130 (opens in a new tab)