Event
Moses kills an Egyptian and flees to Midian
At 40 Moses kills an Egyptian who was striking a Hebrew and flees from Pharaoh to Midian (Exod 2:11-15; Acts 7:23-29).
Sort year1531 BC
Tier 4 · Ussher, Annals of the World
Tier 4: Ussher, Annals (1658): 1531 BC (no higher-tier year available).
Description
The age of 40 comes from Acts 7:23. Moses stayed 40 years in Midian (Acts 7:30). CFAH-6 identifies Moses with Amenemhat IV (Argument 4 §13).
Scripture
Chronologies
| Chronology | Date as stated | Year (BC / AM) | Citation & note |
|---|---|---|---|
| CFAH | Not yet established | — | — pending CFAH reference. CFAH-6 Argument 4 §13: "Moses left when he was 40 years old which would have been 1531/1530 BC" (not an AP). |
| Ussher-Jones | Not yet established | — | — Not stated in the Jones sources read (Chart No. 1; Chronology of the Old Testament 15th ed. 2002). Leave empty until verified. |
| Ussher | 2473b AM, 1531 BC Precision: year |
1531 BC AM 2473 |
Ussher, Annals of the World, Third Age §168 (paragraph numbering of the modern transcription) (opens in a new tab) Sets sort year |
| Jordan secondary | 2473 - exile of Moses from Egypt, according to Acts 7:23. Precision: year |
AM 2473 | Jordan, "The Chronology of the Pentateuch (Part 5)," Biblical Chronology 6:7 (July 1994), §15 "Moses" (year list) (opens in a new tab) |
| Raleigh, The History of the World (1614/1617) | "in the yeere of the World 2474" Precision: year |
AM 2474 | Raleigh, The History of the World (1617, EEBO-TCP A10357), Book II, ch. IIII, §I (opens in a new tab) |
Disagreements & open questions
- Chronologies disagree Anno Mundi figures differ: AM 2473 (Ussher, Jordan); AM 2474 (Raleigh, The History of the World (1614/1617)).
Flags are generated from the figures stored in the data. The master timeline still sorts by the CFAH-weighted sort year.
Maps
Related
Free sources
- The King James Version of the Bible (opens in a new tab) — Exod.2.11-Exod.2.22 ; Acts.7.23-Acts.7.29 public-domain
- The Annals of the World, Deduced from the Origin of Time (1658 English edition), Part One: 4004–176 BC (opens in a new tab) public-domain
- The Chronology of the Pentateuch (Part 5) (Biblical Chronology 6:7, July 1994) (opens in a new tab) free-to-read
- The history of the world (London: printed [by William Stansby] for Walter Burre, 1617), EEBO-TCP A10357 (opens in a new tab) open-license
Copyrighted works (CFAH papers, F. N. Jones) are linked, not reproduced.