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Q: WHAT YEAR WAS THE FLOOD IN THE BIBLE?

A: IT DEPENDS WHAT CALENDAR YOU ARE USING!

On the Gregorian calendar (the one you might have on your wall) the year was 2386 BC.

On the Hebrew calendar, sometimes called the biblical calendar, the year was 1661 AM.

ABOUT

During the year of the Noachian Flood the Hebrew calendar had 13 months, or moon cycles resulting in a year length of 385 days. Noah was 600 years old at the beginning of the flood. See article Noah’s Flood and God’s Calendar.

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GENESIS 7:1 – 8:18

GENESIS 7

1 Then the Lord said to Noah, "Come into the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that you are righteous before Me in this generation.

2 You shall take with you seven each of every clean animal, a male and his female; two each of animals that are unclean, a male and his female;

3 also seven each of birds of the air, male and female, to keep the species alive on the face of all the earth.

4 For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made."

5 And Noah did according to all that the Lord commanded him.

6 Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters were on the earth.

7 So Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.

8 Of clean animals, of animals that are unclean, of birds, and of everything that creeps on the earth,

9 two by two they went into the ark to Noah, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

10 And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth.

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

12 And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

13 On the very same day Noah and Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark--

14 they and every beast after its kind, all cattle after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.

15 And they went into the ark to Noah, two by two, of all flesh in which is the breath of life.

16 So those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the Lord shut him in.

17 Now the flood was on the earth forty days. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.

18 The waters prevailed and greatly increased on the earth, and the ark moved about on the surface of the waters.

19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth, and all the high hills under the whole heaven were covered.

20 The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.

21 And all flesh died that moved on the earth: birds and cattle and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.

22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land, died.

23 So He destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground: both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive.

24 And the waters prevailed on the earth one hundred and fifty days.

GENESIS 8

1 Then God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.

2 The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were also stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

3 And the waters receded continually from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.

4 Then the ark rested in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

6 So it came to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.

7 Then he sent out a raven, which kept going to and fro until the waters had dried up from the earth.

8 He also sent out from himself a dove, to see if the waters had receded from the face of the ground.

9 But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned into the ark to him, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her, and drew her into the ark to himself.

10 And he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent the dove out from the ark.

11 Then the dove came to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

12 So he waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove, which did not return again to him anymore.

13 And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and indeed the surface of the ground was dry.

14 And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dried.

15 Then God spoke to Noah, saying,

16 "Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you.

17 Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you: birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may abound on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth."

18 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him.

YEAR 1661 am

2386 BC

Holy DayStart DayEnd
Passover Mon, Mar 23
Unleavened Bread Tues, Mar 24Mar 30
Pentecost Sun, May 17
Trumpets Thurs, Sep 3
Atonement Sat, Sep 12
Tabernacles Thurs, Sep 17Sep 23
Last Great Day (8th Day) Thurs, Sep 24
THE ABOVE DATES ARE OBSERVED THE PREVIOUS EVENING, AFTER SUNSET
QuestionAnswer
What 247 year period from creation?7
Which 19 year time cycle of the 13 in the 247 year period?88
What year in the 19 year time cycle?8
Hebrew Calendar Days 385
Solar Calendar Days 365
Difference between the solar and Hebrew calendars 20
Difference between last year and present year
Last Year's Difference -20
Gregorian Calendar
Hebrew Calendar
Total # of Sabbaths
Solar Calendar

THE BELOW DATES REPRESENT THE SABBATHS OF EACH MONTH

Year 1661 AM (After Man)
Passover
Mar 23
Unleavened Bread
Mar 24
Mar 30
Pentecost
May 17
Feast of Trumpets
Sep 3
Day of Atonement
Sep 12
Feast of Tabernacles
Sep 17
Sep 23
Last Great Day
Sep 24
The above dates are observed the previous evening, after sunset
How many 247 Year Cycles
6

Hebrew Calendar
385
Solar Calendar
365
Which 19 year cycle
Tenth

Difference
20
Last Year
-10
Where in 19 year cycle
8

Differences
10
Gregorian Calendar
Hebrew Calendar
Solar Calendar
Demonstration of Math
Previous Year
The below dates represent the sabbaths of each month
Next Year
Jan
3
Tev
23
1660
291
 
10
Shev
1
 
298
 
17
 
8
 
305
 
24
 
15
 
312
 
31
 
22
 
319
Feb
7
 
29
 
326
 
14
Adar
6
 
333
 
21
 
13
 
340
 
28
 
20
 
347
Mar
7
 
27
 
354
 
14
Nisan
5
86614
361
 
21
 
12
1661
2
 
28
 
19
 
9
Apr
4
 
26
 
16
 
11
Iyar
3
 
23
 
18
 
10
 
30
 
25
 
17
 
37
May
2
 
24
 
44
 
9
Sivan
2
 
51
 
16
 
9
 
58
 
23
 
16
 
65
 
30
 
23
 
72
Jun
6
 
30
 
79
 
13
Tamm
7
 
86
 
20
 
14
 
93
 
27
 
21
 
100
Jul
4
 
28
 
107
 
11
Av
6
 
114
 
18
 
13
 
121
 
25
 
20
 
128
Aug
1
 
27
 
135
 
8
Elul
4
 
142
 
15
 
11
 
149
 
22
 
18
 
156
 
29
 
25
 
163
Sep
5
Tish
3
 
170
 
12
 
10
 
177
 
19
 
17
 
184
 
26
 
24
 
191
Oct
3
Chesh
1
 
198
 
10
 
8
 
205
 
17
 
15
 
212
 
24
 
22
 
219
 
31
 
29
 
226
Nov
7
Kis
6
 
233
 
14
 
13
 
240
 
21
 
20
 
247
 
28
 
27
 
254
Dec
5
Tev
4
 
261
 
12
 
11
 
268
 
19
 
18
 
275
2385 BC
26
 
25
 
282
Jan
2
Shev
3
 
289
 
9
 
10
 
296
 
16
 
17
 
303
 
23
 
24
 
310
 
30
Adar
1
 
317
Feb
6
 
8
 
324
 
13
 
15
 
331
 
20
 
22
86663
338

GREGORIAN CALENDAR (THE ONE YOU HAVE ON YOUR DESK OR WALL)

Christian Biblical Calendar Converter Abbreviations: BC/AD (Before Christ/Anno Domini) or BCE/CE (Before Common Era/After Common Era)

The Gregorian calendar is sometimes called the Christian calendar or Western calendar. Some calendar scholars reference the Julian calendar, which is similar but lacks modern leap year corrections.


HEBREW CALENDAR (THE ONE IN THE BIBLE)

Abbreviations: AM (Anno Mundi – Latin: “in the year of the world”, Hebrew: “from the creation of the world”)

The Hebrew calendar is sometimes called the Biblical calendar or Jewish calendar, which draws from the Old Testament and calls creation the start of year 1. Converting the calendar is sometimes tricky because the first day of the year 1 is not January 1st.
 

ANCIENT HEBREW CALENDAR CONVERTER

The above tool allows you to enter either the Gregorian calendar date (like 2015, 2016 or 2017) or the Hebrew calendar date and switch between the two.