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Abrahamd begat Isaac; and Isaace begat Jacob; and Jacobg begat Judas and his brethren;

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Gen. 21:2‑5• ²And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him.
³And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.
⁴And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac, being eight days old, as God had commanded him.
⁵And Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. (Gen. 21:2‑5)

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Gen. 25:26• ²⁶And after that came his brother out; and his hand took hold of Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when they were born. (Gen. 25:26)

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Gen. 29:35• ³⁵And she again conceived, and bore a son, and said, This time will I praise Jehovah; therefore she called his name Judah. And she ceased to bear. (Gen. 29:35)

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Abraham.

Gen. 21:2‑5• ²And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him.
³And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.
⁴And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac, being eight days old, as God had commanded him.
⁵And Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. (Gen. 21:2‑5)

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Josh. 24:2‑3• ²And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel: Your fathers dwelt of old on the other side of the river, Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, and they served other gods.
³And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the river, and led him throughout the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed and gave him Isaac. (Josh. 24:2‑3)

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1 Chron. 1:28• ²⁸The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael. (1 Chron. 1:28)

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Isa. 51:2• ²Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bore you; for I called him when he was alone, and blessed him, and multiplied him. (Isa. 51:2)

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Luke 3:34• ³⁴of Jacob, of Isaac, of Abraham, of Terah, of Nachor, (Luke 3:34)

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Acts 7:8• ⁸And he gave to him the covenant of circumcision; and thus he begat Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs. (Acts 7:8)

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Rom. 9:7‑9• ⁷nor because they are seed of Abraham are all children: but, In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee.
⁸That is, they that are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned as seed.
⁹For this word is of promise, According to this time I will come, and there shall be a son to Sarah. (Rom. 9:7‑9)

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Heb. 11:11,17‑18• ¹¹By faith also Sarah herself received strength for the conception of seed, and that beyond a seasonable age; since she counted him faithful who promised.
¹⁷By faith Abraham, when tried, offered up Isaac, and he who had received to himself the promises offered up his only begotten son,
¹⁸as to whom it had been said, In Isaac shall thy seed be called: (Heb. 11:11,17‑18)

Isaac begat.

Gen. 25:26• ²⁶And after that came his brother out; and his hand took hold of Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when they were born. (Gen. 25:26)

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Josh. 24:4• ⁴And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau; and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; and Jacob and his sons went down into Egypt. (Josh. 24:4)

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1 Chron. 1:34• ³⁴And Abraham begot Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel. (1 Chron. 1:34)

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Isa. 41:8• ⁸But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham, my friend (Isa. 41:8)

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Mal. 1:2‑3• ²I have loved you, saith Jehovah; but ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith Jehovah, and I loved Jacob,
³and I hated Esau; and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his inheritance to the jackals of the wilderness. (Mal. 1:2‑3)

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Rom. 9:10‑13• ¹⁰And not only that, but Rebecca having conceived by one, Isaac our father,
¹¹the children indeed being not yet born, or having done anything good or worthless (that the purpose of God according to election might abide, not of works, but of him that calls),
¹²it was said to her, The greater shall serve the less:
¹³according as it is written, I have loved Jacob, and I have hated Esau. (Rom. 9:10‑13)

Jacob begat.

Gen. 29:32‑35• ³²And Leah conceived, and bore a son, and called his name Reuben; for she said, Because Jehovah has looked upon my affliction; for now my husband will love me.
³³And she again conceived, and bore a son, and said, Because Jehovah has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this one also; and she called his name Simeon.
³⁴And she again conceived, and bore a son, and said, Now this time will my husband be united to me, for I have borne him three sons; therefore was his name called Levi.
³⁵And she again conceived, and bore a son, and said, This time will I praise Jehovah; therefore she called his name Judah. And she ceased to bear. (Gen. 29:32‑35)

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Gen. 30:5‑20• ⁵And Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.
⁶And Rachel said, God has done me justice, and has also heard my voice, and given me a son; therefore she called his name Dan.
⁷And Bilhah Rachel's maidservant again conceived, and bore Jacob a second son.
⁸And Rachel said, Wrestlings of God have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed; and she called his name Naphtali.
⁹And when Leah saw that she had ceased to bear, she took Zilpah her maidservant and gave her to Jacob as wife.
¹⁰And Zilpah Leah's maidservant bore Jacob a son.
¹¹And Leah said, Fortunately! and she called his name Gad.
¹²And Zilpah Leah's maidservant bore Jacob a second son.
¹³And Leah said, Happy am I; for the daughters will call me blessed! and she called his name Asher.
¹⁴And Reuben went out in the days of wheat-harvest, and found mandrakes in the fields; and he brought them to his mother Leah. And Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.
¹⁵And she said to her, Is it too little that thou hast taken my husband, that thou wilt take my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to-night for thy son's mandrakes.
¹⁶And when Jacob came from the fields in the evening, Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in to me, for indeed I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
¹⁷And God hearkened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.
¹⁸And Leah said, God has given me my hire, because I have given my maidservant to my husband; and she called his name Issachar.
¹⁹And Leah again conceived, and bore Jacob a sixth son;
²⁰and Leah said, God has endowed me with a good dowry; this time will my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons. And she called his name Zebulun. (Gen. 30:5‑20)

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Gen. 35:16‑19• ¹⁶And they journeyed from Bethel. And there was yet a certain distance to come to Ephrath, when Rachel travailed in childbirth; and it went hard with her in her childbearing.
¹⁷And it came to pass when it went hard with her in her childbearing, that the midwife said to her, Fear not; for this also is a son for thee.
¹⁸And it came to pass as her soul was departing--for she died--that she called his name Benoni; but his father called him Benjamin.
¹⁹And Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem. (Gen. 35:16‑19)

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Gen. 46:8‑27• ⁸And these are the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt: Jacob and his sons. Jacob's firstborn, Reuben.
⁹And the sons of Reuben: Enoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.
¹⁰--And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Saul the son of a Canaanitish woman.
¹¹--And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
¹²--And the sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pherez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pherez were Hezron and Hamul.
¹³--And the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puah, and Job, and Shimron.
¹⁴--And the sons of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.
¹⁵--These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Padan-Aram; and his daughter, Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.
¹⁶And the sons of Gad: Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.
¹⁷--And the sons of Asher: Jimnah, and Jishvah, and Jishvi, and Beriah; and Serah their sister; and the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
¹⁸--These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and she bore these to Jacob: sixteen souls.
¹⁹The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
²⁰And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asnath bore to him, the daughter of Potipherah the priest in On.
²¹--And the sons of Benjamin: Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.
²²--These are the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.
²³And the sons of Dan: Hushim.
²⁴--And the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.
²⁵--These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter; and she bore these to Jacob: all the souls were seven.
²⁶All the souls that came with Jacob to Egypt, that had come out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives: all the souls were sixty-six.
²⁷And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob that came to Egypt were seventy. (Gen. 46:8‑27)

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Gen. 49:8‑12• ⁸Judah--as to thee, thy brethren will praise thee; Thy hand will be upon the neck of thine enemies; Thy father's children will bow down to thee.
⁹Judah is a young lion; From the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stoopeth, he layeth himself down as a lion, And as a lioness: who will rouse him up?
¹⁰The sceptre will not depart from Judah, Nor the lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh come, And to him will be the obedience of peoples.
¹¹He bindeth his foal to the vine, And his ass's colt to the choice vine; He washeth his dress in wine, And his garment in the blood of grapes.
¹²The eyes are red with wine, And the teeth are white with milk. (Gen. 49:8‑12)

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Ex. 1:2‑5• ²Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;
³Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;
⁴Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.
⁵And all the souls that had come out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls; and Joseph was in Egypt. (Ex. 1:2‑5)

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1 Chron. 2:1‑8• ¹These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah, Issachar and Zebulun,
²Dan, Joseph and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
³The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah: which three were born to him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Jehovah; and he slew him.
⁴And Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Pherez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.
⁵The sons of Pherez: Hezron and Hamul.
⁶And the sons of Zerah: Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five of them in all.
⁷And the sons of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the accursed thing.
⁸And the sons of Ethan: Azariah. (1 Chron. 2:1‑8)

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1 Chron. 5:1‑2• ¹And the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, inasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; but the genealogy is not registered according to the birthright,
²for Judah prevailed among his brethren, and of him was the prince, but the birthright was Joseph's), (1 Chron. 5:1‑2)

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Luke 3:33‑34• ³³of Aminadab, of Aram, of Esrom, of Phares, of Juda,
³⁴of Jacob, of Isaac, of Abraham, of Terah, of Nachor, (Luke 3:33‑34)

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Acts 7:8• ⁸And he gave to him the covenant of circumcision; and thus he begat Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs. (Acts 7:8)

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Heb. 7:14• ¹⁴For it is clear that our Lord has sprung out of Juda, as to which tribe Moses spake nothing as to priests. (Heb. 7:14)

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Rev. 7:5• ⁵out of the tribe of Juda, twelve thousand sealed; out of the tribe of Reuben, twelve thousand; out of the tribe of Gad, twelve thousand; (Rev. 7:5)

Juda.

• We begin with Abraham, tracing Jesus not up to him, but down from him. Every Israelite would begin with Abraham, and would be interested to follow the stages of the line from him on whom they all hung. (“Remarks on Matthew 1” by W. Kelly)

• Judas and his brethren," seems to be of importance…. it is evidently in the strictest harmony with this Gospel, for it gives prominence to the royal tribe of whom was the Messiah (Gen. 49: 10), while it reminds the most favored that others, too long out of sight, were not forgotten of God now that He is giving the genealogy of His Messiah. (“Remarks on Matthew 1” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob begat Juda and his brethren;

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Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob begat Juda and his brethren;

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)