Bible Verses About Human Ancestry

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;

And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

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

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

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

When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.

And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;

But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

And Arphaxad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber.

These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,

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

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

Which was the son of Cainan, which was the son of Arphaxad, which was the son of Sem, which was the son of Noe, which was the son of Lamech,

And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.

Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.

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

And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.

Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.

Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?

And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.

And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.

For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.