29 Bible Verses About Ancestry

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

And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:

And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.

And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.

And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,

And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.

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

And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:

And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.

And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben–ammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.

And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.

And the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan–aram.

And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau’s son; and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these were the sons of Adah Esau’s wife.

And these are the sons of Reuel; Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath Esau’s wife.

And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau’s wife: and she bare to Esau Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.

And these are the sons of Reuel Esau’s son; duke Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these are the dukes that came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Bashemath Esau’s wife.

And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:

And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:

And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.

And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel;

These are the names of Esau’s sons; Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife of Esau.

And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.

Of Issachar; Nethaneel the son of Zuar.

And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.

And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city was Laish at the first.

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

And Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon,

And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.

And these be the names of those that were born unto him in Jerusalem; Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,