Jared is a short line in the Genesis genealogy, but in my research his name carries a date: the Watchers came down in his days.
I list the patriarchs with their ages: Mahalalel fathered Jared at 65, and Jared fathered Enoch at 162 and lived 962 years.
Genesis 5 - Adam’s Descendants - 900+ Lifespan, 900+ Year lifespan explanations in Genesis 5 and Human lifespan declines give the same line, with Jared as Mahalalel's son and Enoch as Jared's son.
On Noah's Family Jared appears among the earlier ancestors named in Genesis and Jubilees.
Charles's 1917 translation that I use on Who Were the Nephilim?, says the two hundred angels descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon and bound themselves there by mutual imprecations.
On Defending the Book of Enoch and Explaining the Pre- and Post-Flood Nephilim he argues that the Nephilim of Genesis 6:4 were from the days of Jared, not Noah.
On Moses Tells Us Exactly How the Nephilim Returned After the Flood he places the descent in the time of Jared on Mount Hermon, drawing on Enoch, Jasher and Jubilees, and says the event was unique to the days of Jared.
He reads the "mighty men of old" as the Nephilim of Jared's time, with the Hebrew word olam pointing to a very distant past.
For every page I tagged with Jared, see the Jared tag archive.
Jared, Mahalalel’s son, lived for 962 years.
Enoch, Jared’s son, lived for 365 years.
Mahalalel: Jared at 65 years; lived 895 years.
Jared: Enoch at 162 years; lived 962 years.
He argues that the Nephilim mentioned in Genesis 6:4 were from the days of Jared, not Noah.
Rob Skiba discusses Genesis 6, focusing on verse 4, which mentions the Nephilim being present both "in those days and also after that." This event occurred during the time of Jared on Mount Hermon, based on information found in texts such as Enoch, Jasher, and Jubilees.
He emphasizes that this event was unique to the days of Jared and does not support the idea of multiple angelic incursions.
Skiba explains that the Nephilim of Jared’s time were "mighty men of old," with the Hebrew word olam implying a reference to events from a very distant past.
Enos, Cainan, Mahalalel, Jared – Earlier ancestors mentioned in Genesis and Jubilees.
Jared, Mahalalel’s son, lived for 962 years.
Enoch, Jared’s son, lived for 365 years.
And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: ‘Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.’ … And they were in all two hundred; who descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it.
Jared, Mahalalel’s son, lived for 962 years.
Enoch, Jared’s son, lived for 365 years.
15And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
16and Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:
18And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:
19and Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
20and all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.