Bible Verses About Ancestral Records

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.

And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.

And all their villages that were round about the same cities, unto Baal. These were their habitations, and their genealogy.

What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?

These are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.

And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written:

That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:

The sons of Levi, the chief of the fathers, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.

And their brethren among all the families of Issachar were valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand.

Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom.

By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.

And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

And these were they which went up from Tel–melah, Tel–harsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not shew their father’s house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:

These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.

Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.

How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!

And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir:

These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.

And these were they which went up also from Tel–melah, Tel–haresha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not shew their father’s house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel.

And his deeds, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,

Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

And Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse,

And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned, were the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,

Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses;

These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse;

Which was the son of Mathusala, which was the son of Enoch, which was the son of Jared, which was the son of Maleleel, which was the son of Cainan,

So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.

And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.

And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph’s kindred was made known unto Pharaoh.

These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.

(For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;

Which was the son of Simeon, which was the son of Juda, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Jonan, which was the son of Eliakim,

The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the Lord in their third generation.