(A)Abraham was the father of Isaac, and (B)Isaac the father of Jacob, and (C)Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,

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And (A)he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And (B)so Abraham became the father of Isaac, and (C)circumcised him on the eighth day, and (D)Isaac became the father of Jacob, and (E)Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.

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17 By faith (A)Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son, 18 of whom it was said, (B)“Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.”

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A Genealogy of David

These are the sons of (A)Israel: (B)Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, (C)Issachar, Zebulun, (D)Dan, (E)Joseph, (F)Benjamin, (G)Naphtali, (H)Gad, and Asher. (I)The sons of Judah: (J)Er, Onan and Shelah; these three Bath-shua the Canaanite bore to him. Now Er, Judah's firstborn, was evil in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death. His daughter-in-law (K)Tamar also bore him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all.

The (L)sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul. The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara, five in all. The son[a] of Carmi: Achan, the troubler of Israel, who (M)broke faith in the matter of the devoted thing; and Ethan's son was Azariah.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 2:7 Hebrew sons

(A)Now (B)these are the names of the descendants of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons. (C)Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. 10 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman. 11 The sons of (D)Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 12 The sons of (E)Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but (F)Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan); and the sons of (G)Perez were Hezron and Hamul. 13 (H)The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Yob, and Shimron. 14 The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel. 15 These are the sons of Leah, (I)whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, together with his daughter Dinah; altogether his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three.

16 The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli. 17 (J)The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, with Serah their sister. And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. 18 (K)These are the sons of Zilpah, (L)whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she bore to Jacob—sixteen persons.

19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin. 20 And (M)to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera the priest of (N)On, bore to him. 21 And (O)the sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard. 22 These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob—fourteen persons in all.

23 The son[a] of Dan: Hushim. 24 (P)The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem. 25 (Q)These are the sons of Bilhah, (R)whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob—seven persons in all.

26 All the persons belonging to Jacob who came into Egypt, who were his own descendants, not including Jacob's sons' wives, were sixty-six persons in all. 27 And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two. (S)All the persons of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 46:23 Hebrew sons

26 Afterward his brother came out with (A)his hand holding Esau's heel, so (B)his name was called Jacob.[a] Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 25:26 Jacob means He takes by the heel, or He cheats

And Sarah (A)conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age (B)at the time of which God had spoken to him. Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore him, (C)Isaac.[a] And Abraham (D)circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, (E)as God had commanded him. (F)Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 21:3 Isaac means he laughs

12,000 from the tribe of Judah were sealed,
12,000 from the tribe of Reuben,
12,000 from the tribe of Gad,

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11 By faith (A)Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered (B)him faithful who had promised.

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Look to Abraham your father
    and to Sarah who bore you;
for (A)he was but one when I called him,
    that I might bless him and multiply him.

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But you, Israel, (A)my servant,
    Jacob, (B)whom I have chosen,
    the offspring of Abraham, (C)my friend;

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Descendants of Reuben

The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel ((A)for he was the firstborn, but because (B)he defiled his father's couch, (C)his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, so that he could not be enrolled as the oldest son; (D)though Judah became strong among his brothers and a (E)chief came from him, yet the birthright belonged to Joseph),

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