Quotes About Ancestry

When Methuselah was 187 years old, he became the father of Lamech.

The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

the Pathrusites, the Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and the Caphtorites.

And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,

the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

And sons were also born to Shem, the older brother of Japheth; Shem was the forefather of all the sons of Eber.

The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.

Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber.

And Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.

These are the sons of Shem, according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.

When Arphaxad was 35 years old, he became the father of Shelah.

When Serug was 30 years old, he became the father of Nahor.

When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah.

The older daughter gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites of today.

She replied, “I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son that Milcah bore to Nahor.”

This is the account of Abrahamís son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac,

“Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your motherís father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your motherís brother.

This is the account of Esau, the father of the Edomites, in the area of Mount Seir.

Korah, Gatam, and Amalek. They are the chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom, and they are the grandsons of Adah.