100 Bible Verses About Ancestry

And he said, I am Abraham’s servant.

There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the firstborn of Joseph; to wit, for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead: because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.

And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.

Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.

The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

And these are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.

We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

And the sons of Eshek his brother were, Ulam his firstborn, Jehush the second, and Eliphelet the third.

Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,

And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father’s house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.

So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

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

And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brethren and their sons, twenty;

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

And I gave Gilead unto Machir.

Give unto the Lord, O ye kindreds of the people, give unto the Lord glory and strength.

And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Ir–shemesh,

And they made war with the Hagarites, with Jetur, and Nephish, and Nodab.

And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei.

The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.

And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.

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

That they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.

Of the children of Gad, 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;

These are the families of the children of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.

The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Ami.

And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan–aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.

These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.

The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.

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:

Of the sons of Bani; Maadai, Amram, and Uel,

And Samuel said unto the people, It is the Lord that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.

When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face.

The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites: of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites:

And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,

The children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon,

The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.

Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.

And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.

For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

These are the families of Issachar according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and three hundred.

And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.

When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;

The children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of Padon,

And the prince of the tribe of the children of Issachar, Paltiel the son of Azzan.

For there were many in Judah sworn unto him, because he was the son in law of Shechaniah the son of Arah; and his son Johanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah.

Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.

Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;

Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.

Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.

And those that were numbered of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty.

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 Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth,

And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.

On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their armies: and the captain of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.

And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor;

The children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,

Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.

Of the sons also of Bebai; Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai.

And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.

And those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers,

Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son,

These be the heads of their fathers’ houses: The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these be the families of Reuben.

And of the sons of Bani; Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal, and Ramoth.

So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.

And at Jerusalem dwelt certain of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin. Of the children of Judah; Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalaleel, of the children of Perez;

Of the sons of Uzziel; Amminadab the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twelve.

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

Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred.

Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,

The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the Lord gave unto them.

And of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites:

And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.

On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim, offered:

Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:

Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance.

The children of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty.

Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite,

We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.

And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.

And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphalet.

And of the sons of Harim; Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.

And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: of the tribe of Reuben; Elizur the son of Shedeur.

The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty and five.

Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,

The children of Magbish, an hundred fifty and six.

And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s brother, and that he was Rebekah’s son: and she ran and told her father.

Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.

The children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub,

In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.

Arab, and Dumah, and Eshean,

And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, recorder.

And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;

Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brethren of Hosah were thirteen.

And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau’s heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.

Micha, Rehob, Hashabiah,

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;