The number 962 is associated with Jared, who according to Genesis 5:20 lived for 962 years.
Genesis 5:20 states that Jared lived for 962 years, making him one of the longest-lived individuals in the Bible's genealogies before the Flood. Jared was the father of Enoch, the righteous man who "walked with God" and was taken away without dying (Gen 5:24), and he formed an important link in the lineage from Adam to Noah. The number 962 itself has no established symbolic or numerological meaning in Jewish tradition beyond this biographical reference. The name Jared (Hebrew: יֶרֶד, Yered) is derived from the root י-ר-ד (yarad), which means "to descend" or "to go down." Some rabbis have linked this to the tradition that it was in his time that angels "descended" to the earth (cf. Gen 6:1–4). Jared is the second longest-lived person in the Bible, surpassed only by Methuselah who lived for 969 years (Gen 5:27).*