Jared (3544 BC-2582 BC) was the son of Mahalalel, grandson of Kenan, great-grandson of Enos, great-great-grandson of Seth and great-great-great-grandson of Adam and Eve in the Book of Genesis. He became father of Enoch at the age of 162, grandfather of Methuselah at the age of 227 and great-grandfather of Lamech at the age of 414. He was 470 years old when his great-great-great-grandfather Adam died at the age of 930, 527 years old when his son Enoch walked with God and was taken from the Earth at the age of 365, and 582 years old when his great-great-grandfather Seth died at the age of 912. He became great-great-grandfather of Noah at the age of 596. He was 680 years old when his great-grandfather Enos died at the age of 905, 775 years old when his grandfather Kenan died at the age of 910, and 830 years old when his father Mahalalel died at the age of 895. He died at the age of 962, thus being the 2nd longest-lived man in history recorded in the Bible, having other sons and daughters, grandsons and granddaughters and great-grandsons and great-granddaughters.
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