Bible Verses About Genealogy
This collection includes 50 passages about Genealogy. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.
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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,
Scripture Passages
And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.
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,
But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom.
And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse;
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.
Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;
And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned, were the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,
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.
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 these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir:
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 all their villages that were round about the same cities, unto Baal. These were their habitations, and their genealogy.
And their brethren among all the families of Issachar were valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand.
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.
What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
And Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz,
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 Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
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 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,
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.
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.
And Ezekias begat Manasses; and Manasses begat Amon; and Amon begat Josias;
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 these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham begat Isaac:
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,
By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.
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 Jeshua begat Joiakim, Joiakim also begat Eliashib, and Eliashib begat Joiada,
And Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat Asa;
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:
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.
And Eliud begat Eleazar; and Eleazar begat Matthan; and Matthan begat Jacob;
Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron,
And those that were numbered of the sons of Gershon, throughout their families, and by the house of their fathers,
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