Genealogies

The genealogies

The Bible’s genealogies as pictures of a family. Each opens on its family, with its passage beside it, and every name shows what the Bible tells of them and where.

• Tree: a living tree, its trunk the longest line, its branches the families.
• Line: generation by generation, with every branch beneath the generation it leaves.
• Lifespans (Genesis 5 and 11): each life as a bar, by the text’s own numbers, to show who lived alongside whom. They are never turned into dates.

The people and how they’re related come from STEPBible’s TIPNR (Tyndale House), and each tree follows its passage’s own “X was the father of Y”.

1. Cain’s line, and Seth

   Genesis 4:17–26

   The descendants of Cain to Lamech’s children, and the birth of Seth and Enosh.

   16 people · 8 generations

2. From Adam to Noah

   Genesis 5:1–32

   Ten generations from Adam to Noah, with each father’s age at his son’s birth and, for all but Noah, the length of his life.

   13 people · 11 generations · with lifespans

3. The table of nations

   Genesis 10:1–32

   The descendants of Noah’s sons Japheth, Ham and Shem, from whom the nations spread out after the flood.

   75 people · 7 generations

4. From Shem to Abram

   Genesis 11:10–32

   From Shem to Terah, with each father’s age at his son’s birth, and Terah’s sons Abram, Nahor and Haran.

   16 people · 11 generations · with lifespans

5. Abraham’s other sons, and Ishmael’s

   Genesis 25:1–18

   The sons Keturah bore Abraham, and the twelve sons of Ishmael.

   37 people · 4 generations

6. Esau’s descendants, and Edom’s other chiefs and kings

   Genesis 36:1–43

   Esau’s family, the chiefs of Edom, and the kings who reigned in Edom.

   77 people · 4 generations

7. Jacob’s family goes down to Egypt

   Genesis 46:8–27

   The seventy of Jacob’s household who came into Egypt, by the four mothers of his sons.

   80 people · 4 generations

8. The heads of Reuben, Simeon and Levi

   Exodus 6:14–27

   The families of Jacob’s first three sons, leading to Moses and Aaron.

   49 people · 7 generations

9. From Perez to David

   Ruth 4:18–22

   Ten generations from Perez to David, through Boaz.

   10 people · 10 generations

10. From Adam to the sons of Esau

    1 Chronicles 1:1–54

    The line from Adam through Noah and Abraham, with the nations and Edom’s kings and chiefs.

    183 people · 24 generations

11. The families of Judah, and Simeon

    1 Chronicles 2:1–4:43

    Israel’s sons, then the clans of Judah, David’s line and the families of Simeon.

    373 people · 39 generations

12. David’s descendants

    1 Chronicles 3:1–24

    David’s sons, the kings of Judah, and the royal line after the exile.

    91 people · 28 generations

13. The descendants of Levi

    1 Chronicles 6:1–81

    The high priests, the Levites who led the singing, and the towns given to Levi.

    109 people · 27 generations

14. The genealogy of Jesus the Messiah

    Matthew 1:1–17

    From Abraham to Jesus, in three sets of fourteen generations.

    47 people · 41 generations

15. The ancestry of Jesus

    Luke 3:23–38

    From Jesus back through David and Abraham to Adam, the son of God.

    76 people · 74 generations