Bible Verses About Family Records

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

So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they were written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, who were carried away to Babylon for their transgression.

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 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 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:

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.

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

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

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

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

Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.

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 Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.

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

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

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

And Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse,

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

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.

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

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.

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;

Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:

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,

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:

The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

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.

Even those that were numbered of them, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers, were two thousand and six hundred and thirty.

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

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

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,

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.

Which was the son of Joanna, which was the son of Rhesa, which was the son of Zorobabel, which was the son of Salathiel, which was the son of Neri,

And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,

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

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

All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the chief of Israel numbered, after their families, and after the house of their fathers,

And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded you?