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  2. Genealogies in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    The book of Genesis records the descendants of Adam and Eve. The enumerated genealogy in chapters 4, 5, and 11, reports the lineal male descent to Abraham, including the age at which each patriarch fathered his named son and the number of years he lived thereafter. The genealogy for Cain is given in chapter 4, and the genealogy for Seth is in ...

  3. Genealogies of Genesis - Wikipedia

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    Following the Genesis flood narrative, a large multi-branched genealogy presents the descendants of the sons of Noah. ( Genesis 10:9 ) The 70 names given represent biblical geography, consisting of local ethnonyms and toponyms presented in the form of eponymous ancestors (names in origin-myth genealogies that are to be understood as ancestors ...

  4. Genealogy of Jesus - Wikipedia

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    The New Testament provides two accounts of the genealogy of Jesus, one in the Gospel of Matthew and another in the Gospel of Luke. [ 1 ] Matthew starts with Abraham and works forwards, while Luke works back in time from Jesus to Adam. The lists of names are identical between Abraham and David (whose royal ancestry affirms Jesus' Messianic title ...

  5. Generations of Noah - Wikipedia

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    The Generations of Noah, also called the Table of Nations or Origines Gentium, [ 1 ] is a genealogy of the sons of Noah, according to the Hebrew Bible (Genesis 10:9), and their dispersion into many lands after the Flood, [ 2 ] focusing on the major known societies.

  6. Abraham's family tree - Wikipedia

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    The following is a family tree for the descendants of the line of Noah's son Shem, through Abraham to Jacob and his sons. Dashed lines are marriage connections. Not all individuals in this portion of the Bible are given names. For example, one English translation of the Bible states in Genesis 11:13 that "After the birth of Shelah,

  7. Jesus bloodline - Wikipedia

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    For the biblical genealogy of Jesus, see Genealogy of Jesus. The Jesus bloodline refers to the proposition that a lineal sequence of the historical Jesus has persisted, possibly to the present time. Though absent from the Gospels or historical records, the concept of Jesus having descendants has gained a presence in the public imagination, as ...

  8. Ham (son of Noah) - Wikipedia

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    Ham[ a ] (in Hebrew: חָם), according to the Table of Nations in the Book of Genesis, was the second son of Noah [ 1 ] and the father of Cush, Mizraim, Phut and Canaan. [ 2 ][ 3 ] Ham's descendants are interpreted by Josephus and others as having populated Africa and adjoining parts of Asia. The Bible refers to Egypt as "the land of Ham" in ...

  9. Davidic line - Wikipedia

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    The Davidic lineor House of David(Hebrew: בֵּית דָּוִד, romanized: Bēt Dāvīḏ) is the lineageof the Israeliteking David. In Judaism, it is based on texts from the Hebrew Bibleand through the succeeding centuries based on later traditions. According to the Bible, David, of the Tribe of Judah, was the third king of the United ...