His father
Mahalalel, great-grandson of
Seth, son of
Adam, was 65 years old when Jared was born. In the apocryphal
Book of Jubilees, his mother's name is Dinah.
Jubilees states that Jared married a woman whose name is variously spelled as Bereka, Baraka, and Barakah, and the
Bible speaks of Jared having become father to other sons and daughters (). Of those children, only
Enoch is named specifically, born when Jared was 162 years old (, , , , ). Enoch went on to marry Edna, according to
Jubilees, and the sole named grandchild of Jared is Enoch's son
Methuselah, the longest-living human mentioned in the Bible who lived 969 years.(Genesis 5:27)(, , ). Additionally, Jared was a forefather of
Noah and
his three sons. Jared's age was given as 962 years old when he died (when Noah was 366), making him the second-oldest person mentioned in the
Hebrew Bible and the
Septuagint. In the
Samaritan Pentateuch, his age was 62 at fatherhood and only 847 at death, making Noah the oldest and Jared the seventh-oldest. According to
Samaritan tradition, the ancient Samaritan village of
Shalem Rabbta, modern-day
Salim, was founded by Jared. ==Islam==