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Matthew
The Ancestors of
the
1
This is a record of the ancestors
of
the
, a descendant
of
and of Abraham:
2 Abraham was the father of Isaac.
Isaac was the father of Jacob.
Jacob was the father of Judah and
his brothers.
3 Judah was the father of Perez and
Zerah (whose mother was Tamar).
Perez was the father of Hezron.
Hezron was the father of Ram.
4 Ram was the father of Amminadab.
Amminadab was the father of Nahshon.
Nahshon was the father of Salmon.
5 Salmon was the father of Boaz
(whose mother was Rahab).
Boaz was the father of Obed (whose
mother was Ruth).
Obed was the father of Jesse.
6 Jesse was the father of King
.
was the father of Solomon (whose
mother was Bathsheba, the widow
of Uriah).
7 Solomon was the father
of Rehoboam.
Rehoboam was the father of Abijah.
Abijah was the father of Asa.
8 Asa was the father of Jehoshaphat.
Jehoshaphat was the father of Jehoram.
Jehoram was the father of Uzziah.
9 Uzziah was the father of Jotham.
Jotham was the father of Ahaz.
Ahaz was the father of Hezekiah.
10 Hezekiah was the father of Manasseh.
Manasseh was the father of Amon.
Amon was the father of Josiah.
11 Josiah was the father of Jehoiachin
and his brothers (born at the time of the
exile to Babylon).
12 After the Babylonian exile:
Jehoiachin was the father of Shealtiel.
Shealtiel was the father of Zerubbabel.
13 Zerubbabel was the father of Abiud.
Abiud was the father of Eliakim.
Eliakim was the father of Azor.
14 Azor was the father of Zadok.
Zadok was the father of Akim.
Akim was the father of Eliud.
15 Eliud was the father of Eleazar.
Eleazar was the father of Matthan.
Matthan was the father of Jacob.
16 Jacob was the father of Joseph,
the husband of Mary.
Mary gave birth to
,
who is called the
.
17 All those listed above include
fourteen generations from Abraham
to
, fourteen from
to the
Babylonian exile, and fourteen from the
Babylonian exile to the
.
The Birth of
the
18 This is how
the
was
born. His mother, Mary, was engaged to
be married to Joseph. But before the
marriage took place, while she was still
a virgin, she became pregnant through
the power of the
. 19 Joseph,
to whom she was engaged, was a
man and did not want to disgrace her
publicly, so he decided to break the
engagement quietly.
20 As he considered this, an
of the
appeared to him in a dream.
“Joseph, son of
,” the
said, “do
not be afraid to take Mary as your wife.
For the child within her was conceived
by the
. 21 And she will have a
son, and you are to name him
,
for he will save his people from their
.”
22 All of this occurred to fulfill the
’s message through his
:
23 “
.’”
24 When Joseph woke up, he did as
the
of the
commanded
and took Mary as his wife. 25 But he did
not have sexual relations with her until
her son was born. And Joseph named
him
.
2
Visitors from the East
was born in Bethlehem
in Judea, during the reign of King
Herod. About that time some wise men
from eastern lands arrived in
,
asking, 2 “Where is the newborn king of
