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Key facts
- Spouse
- Baraka
- Children
- Enoch , and others
- Parent
- Mahalalel
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
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- present in work
- 1 Chronicles 1
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- date of birth
- 3544-00-00
- date of death
- 2582-00-00
- Commons category
- Jared (Biblical figure)
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Jared or Jered (Hebrew: יֶרֶד Yereḏ, in pausa יָרֶד Yāreḏ, "he descends / he will descend"; Greek: Ἰάρετ or Ἰάρεδ, Iáret or Iáred; Arabic: يَارَد Yārad), in the Book of Genesis, was a sixth-generation descendant of Adam and Eve. His primary history is recounted in Genesis 5:18–20.
Modern scholarship
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