Bible Verses About Ancestry Study

And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein,

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

Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.

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

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.

For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:

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

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

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

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

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

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

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

And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people;

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

And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed.

And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

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;

But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.

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 Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse,

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;

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

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

And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.

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

And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name.

By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;

Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

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

And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,

Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.

O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

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.