Quotes about Ancestry
When Israel saw the sons of Joseph, he asked, “Who are these?”
- Genesis 48:8
He saw Ephraim’s sons to the third generation, and indeed the sons of Machir son of Manasseh were brought up on Joseph’s knees.
- Genesis 50:23
Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,
- Exodus 1:6
Now a man of the house of Levi married a daughter of Levi,
- Exodus 2:1
“This is so that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has appeared to you.”
- Exodus 4:5
The sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman. These were the clans of Simeon.
- Exodus 6:15
The sons of Gershon were Libni and Shimei, by their clans.
- Exodus 6:17
The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. Kohath lived 133 years.
- Exodus 6:18
And Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years.
- Exodus 6:20
The sons of Izhar were Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri.
- Exodus 6:21
The sons of Uzziel were Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri.
- Exodus 6:22
And after the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites and gives it to you, as He swore to you and your fathers,
- Exodus 13:11