Bible Verses About Family History

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:

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,

And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.

And Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse,

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

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

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

And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,

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.

Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;

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

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

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

We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.

After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.

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

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

And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness:

Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother’s brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,

And Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz,

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.

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

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

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

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

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;

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 Jeshua begat Joiakim, Joiakim also begat Eliashib, and Eliashib begat Joiada,

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,

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

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 Ezekias begat Manasses; and Manasses begat Amon; and Amon begat Josias;

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.

And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph’s knees.

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

Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron,

Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.