Jared

Jared was one of the patriarchs before the flood, of the line of Seth, sixth in the line of Adam's descendants, the son of Mahalalel and the father of Enoch. The holy Evangelist Luke counts him among the ancestors of the Lord Jesus Christ (Luke 3:37). The Church honours him with the holy forefathers, on the Sundays before the Nativity.

His life, according to Scripture

The Book of Genesis (5:15-20) says that Jared was born when his father, Mahalalel, was sixty-⁠five (in the Septuagint, a hundred and sixty-⁠five). Jared was a hundred and sixty-⁠two when Enoch was born, then lived eight hundred years and had other sons and daughters. In all he lived nine hundred and sixty-⁠two years. The numbers are the same in the Hebrew text and the Septuagint. By the chronology of the Hebrew text, he died when Noah was three hundred and sixty-⁠six, more than two hundred years before the flood. Scripture names only one son of his, Enoch, who pleased God and was taken by Him without seeing death (Genesis 5:24). Jared was thus the grandfather of Methuselah and the great-⁠grandfather of Lamech. Only Methuselah, at nine hundred and sixty-⁠nine years, lived longer than he.

The name

The name Jared (Hebrew Yered) comes from the Hebrew verb "to descend." The Book of Jubilees, which is not Scripture, says that he was given this name because in his days the angels of the Lord came down to earth. The Church does not receive that book among the inspired writings.

Veneration

The Church remembers Jared with the other patriarchs on the Sundays before the Nativity of the Lord. Scripture says nothing about his deeds or his tomb.