Bible Verses About Ancestry

And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto the Lord the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.

Of Dan, Azareel the son of Jeroham. These were the princes of the tribes of Israel.

And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izeharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites.

Of the sons of Shechaniah, of the sons of Pharosh; Zechariah: and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males an hundred and fifty.

But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.

And the sons of Uzziel; Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Zithri.

And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.

Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

These are the sons of Esau, who is Edom, and these are their dukes.

Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.

And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

And of the sons of Bebai; Zechariah the son of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight males.

And if we have not rather done it for fear of this thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak unto our children, saying, What have ye to do with the Lord God of Israel?

And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.

And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:

And Zanoah, and En–gannim, Tappuah, and Enam,

The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.

The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their families.

All that were numbered in the camp of Judah were an hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four hundred, throughout their armies. These shall first set forth.

And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.

And their brethren the sons of Merari stood on the left hand: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,

And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:

And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again through the people from Beer–sheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them back unto the Lord God of their fathers.

And unto the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with her suburbs, and Kartah with her suburbs,

And Chelub the brother of Shuah begat Mehir, which was the father of Eshton.

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.

On the eighth day offered Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh:

And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.

And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:

And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjath–jearim.

And the sons of Hananiah; Pelatiah, and Jesaiah: the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shechaniah.

The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side by their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

The eleventh to Azareel, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.

Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth–lehem–judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.

And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishon with her suburbs, Dabareh with her suburbs,

Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

And the name of the daughter of Asher was Sarah.