The Line of Seth

These are the family[a] records(A) of the descendants of Adam. On the day that God created man,[b] He made him in the likeness of God;

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 5:1 Lit written family
  2. Genesis 5:1 Or Adam

From Adam to Noah

This is the written account(A) of Adam’s family line.(B)

When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God.(C)

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God Warns Noah

These are the family records(A) of Noah. Noah was a righteous man,(B) blameless among his contemporaries;(C) Noah walked with God.(D)

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Noah and the Flood

This is the account(A) of Noah and his family.

Noah was a righteous man, blameless(B) among the people of his time,(C) and he walked faithfully with God.(D)

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The Table of Nations

10 These are the family records(A) of Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. They also had sons after the flood.

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The Table of Nations

10 This is the account(A) of Shem, Ham and Japheth,(B) Noah’s sons,(C) who themselves had sons after the flood.

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From Shem to Abram

10 These are the family records(A) of Shem. Shem lived 100 years and fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.

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From Shem to Abram(A)

10 This is the account(B) of Shem’s family line.

Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father[a] of Arphaxad.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 11:10 Father may mean ancestor; also in verses 11-25.

27 These are the family records of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran fathered Lot.

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Abram’s Family

27 This is the account(A) of Terah’s family line.

Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor(B) and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.(C)

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Ishmael’s Family Records

12 These are the family records(A) of Abraham’s son Ishmael,(B) whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s slave, bore to Abraham.

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Ishmael’s Sons(A)

12 This is the account(B) of the family line of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Sarah’s slave, Hagar(C) the Egyptian, bore to Abraham.(D)

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The Birth of Jacob and Esau

19 These are the family records of Isaac son of Abraham. Abraham fathered Isaac.(A)

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Jacob and Esau

19 This is the account(A) of the family line of Abraham’s son Isaac.

Abraham became the father of Isaac,

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Esau’s Family

36 These are the family records(A) of Esau (that is, Edom(B)).

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Esau’s Descendants(A)(B)

36 This is the account(C) of the family line of Esau (that is, Edom).(D)

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These are the family records of Esau, father of the Edomites in the mountains of Seir.

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This is the account(A) of the family line of Esau the father of the Edomites(B) in the hill country of Seir.

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These are the family records of Jacob.

At 17 years of age, Joseph tended sheep with his brothers. The young man was working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives,(A) and he brought a bad report about them to their father.(B)

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This is the account(A) of Jacob’s family line.

Joseph,(B) a young man of seventeen,(C) was tending the flocks(D) with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah(E) and the sons of Zilpah,(F) his father’s wives, and he brought their father a bad report(G) about them.

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