Looking over the chart, there are some interesting things we can learn...
1. Adam perhaps knew Methuselah.
2. Methuselah died at age 969, the very year his grandson turned 600 (Gen. 7:6).
3. Adam died just over 100 years before Noah was born.
4. The great
flood took place 1,656 years after creation.
5. Noah lived another 350 years after the flood ended, so he probably was present at Babel when the events of Genesis 11 took place.
6. Noah probably knew Terah, but perhaps just missed Abraham's birth!
7. Shem, who lived through the flood, outlived Terah. He probably also knew
Abraham.
8. Shem hadn't been dead very long when his great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandson, Jacob, returned to the area to get a wife!
What other interesting observations can you make?