Bible Verses About Family Lineage Study

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

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 Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse,

And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.

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

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

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.

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.

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 Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,

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

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 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:

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

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,

Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families;

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

And Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz,

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,

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

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

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;

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.

Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers,

And those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers,

And those that were numbered of the sons of Gershon, throughout their families, and by the house of their fathers,

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

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

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

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:

And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Shallum,

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

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

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.

Which was the son of Jose, which was the son of Eliezer, which was the son of Jorim, which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi,

Which was the son of Jesse, which was the son of Obed, which was the son of Booz, which was the son of Salmon, which was the son of Naasson,

And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Ahimaaz,

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