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5And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse;

Matthew 1:5

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Matthew Henry

(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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