2Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;
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And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.
By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, …
And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.
For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. …
And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-17)Concerning this genealogy of our Saviour, observe, I. The title of it. It is the book (or the account, as the Hebrew word sepher, a book , sometimes signifies) of the generation of Jesus Christ , of his ancestors according to the flesh; or, It is the narrative of his birth. It is Biblos Geneseos — a book of Genesis . The Old Testament begins with the book of the generation of the world, and it is…
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