Person

Salah (Shelah)

Also: Shelah, Sala

Son of Arphaxad (Gen 11:12); father of Eber.

Sort year2311 BC

Tier 4 · Ussher, Annals of the World

Tier 4: Ussher, Annals (1658): 2311 BC (no higher-tier year available).

Description

Masoretic text: born AM 1693 (when his father was the age given in Gen 11), lived 433 years, died AM 2126. No CFAH paper dates this person; the sort year falls to Ussher.

Scripture

Family

Father: Arphaxad (Arpachshad)
Children: Eber (Heber)

Scripture facts

Age at son's birth: 30 (Eber (Heber))
Lifespan: 433 years

Genesis 11:12–11:15 (opens in a new tab)

Birth

birth of Salah (Shelah), CFAH first
Chronology	Date as stated	Year (BC / AM)	Citation & note
CFAH	Not yet established	—	— pending CFAH reference
Ussher-Jones	1693 AM Precision: year	AM 1693	Jones, Chronology of the Old Testament (15th ed., 2002), "Chronological Compendium", p. 1 ("Salah born when Arphaxad was 35 ... 1693") (opens in a new tab) AM only; no BC printed.
Ussher	1693d AM, 2311 BC Precision: year	2311 BC AM 1693	Ussher, Annals of the World, Second Age §45 (paragraph numbering of the modern transcription) (opens in a new tab) Sets sort year
Jordan secondary	1693 - Shelah born. Precision: year	AM 1693	Jordan, "The Chronology of the Pentateuch (Part 2)," Biblical Chronology 6:4 (April 1994), §8 "The Chronology of Genesis 11" (year list) (opens in a new tab)
Jordan (compilation) secondary	1693 AM Precision: year	AM 1693	Anno Mundi Chronology Studies (unnamed compiler; a compilation of James B. Jordan's system), p. 2, chart "Genesis 11:10 – 12 Genealogy" (opens in a new tab) Agrees with Jordan's own published AM 1693.
MT-Gen	AM 1693 Precision: year	AM 1693	Gen 11:10–26 (Arphaxad AM 1658 = Shem's 100th year, two years after the Flood of AM 1656; each later birth adds the father's age at the named son) (opens in a new tab)
Josephus (Whiston translation)	"Sala ... whom Arphaxad had for his son at the hundred and thirty-fifth year of his age" Precision: unknown	—	Josephus, Antiquities I.6.5 (Whiston) (opens in a new tab) Josephus (Whiston) has 135, the Septuagint-type figure; the Masoretic text has 35 (Gen 11:12).

Death

death of Salah (Shelah), CFAH first
Chronology	Date as stated	Year (BC / AM)	Citation & note
CFAH	Not yet established	—	— pending CFAH reference
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	2126d AM, 1878 BC Precision: year	1878 BC AM 2126	Ussher, Annals of the World, Third Age §88 (paragraph numbering of the modern transcription) (opens in a new tab)
Jordan secondary	"Shelah died when Abraham was 118." Precision: year	—	Jordan, "The Chronology of the Pentateuch (Part 2)," Biblical Chronology 6:4 (April 1994), §8 "The Chronology of Genesis 11" (year list) (opens in a new tab) Stated relative to Abraham; Jordan prints no AM figure for this death.
Jordan (compilation) secondary	2126 AM Salah dies @ 433 years old Precision: year	AM 2126	Anno Mundi Chronology Studies (unnamed compiler; a compilation of James B. Jordan's system), p. 2, chart "Genesis 11:10 – 12 Genealogy" (opens in a new tab)
MT-Gen	AM 2126 Precision: year	AM 2126	1693 + 433 = 2126 (lifespan from Gen 11:12–11:15) (opens in a new tab)

Free sources

The King James Version of the Bible (opens in a new tab) — Gen.10.24 ; Gen.11.12-Gen.11.15 ; 1Chr.1.18 ; Luke.3.35 public-domain
The Chronology of the Pentateuch (Part 2) (Biblical Chronology 6:4, April 1994) (opens in a new tab) — §8 year list free-to-read
The Antiquities of the Jews (opens in a new tab) — Book I, ch. 6, §5 public-domain
Chronology of the Old Testament: A Return to the Basics (15th ed.) (opens in a new tab) free-to-read
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
Anno Mundi Chronology Studies (A.M. chronology charts and A.M./B.C. table) (opens in a new tab) private-copy

Copyrighted works (CFAH papers, F. N. Jones) are linked, not reproduced.