While it's clear from Genesis 5, Genesis 10 (also known as the Table of Nations) and both books of Chronicles that Jewish people value their lineage, the actual word "lineage" appears only once in Luke 2:4 of the King James Version.

Appearances of genealogy/genealogies: Numbers 1:20-42; 1 Chronicles 1:29; 5:1, 7, 17; 7:5, 7, 40; 9:1; 2 Chronicles 12:15; 31:16-19

Lifespans from Creation to the death of Joseph are obtainable; but, beyond that point we have to glean from world events.

Note that some references state a male descendant as a "son" even if one or more generation had been skipped. Also, names are often repeated generations apart or may not even be part of the same lineage. For example, there is a Saul in the Old Testament who was Israel's first king and there also was Saul of Tarsus who became known as the apostle Paul in the New Testament.

In cases like the 12 tribes of Israel, lineage comes from the same male, but different females. After a sufficient amount of humans existed, polygamy (marriage to more than one woman) was no longer needed to populate the Earth, but was nevertheless practiced by some.

1 Chronicles 1 / Genesis 5 - Adam > Seth > Enosh > Kenan > Mahalalel > Jared > Enoch > Methuselah > Lamech > Noah > Shem

Genesis 11 - Shem > Arphaxad > Shelah > Eber > Peleg > Reu > Serug > Nahor > Terah > Abram (Abraham)

Genesis 21, Genesis 25 - Abraham > Isaac > Jacob (Israelites)

Ham > Canaan > Canaanites

Terah > Haran > Lot > Ammonites, Moabites

Abraham > Isaac > Esau (Edomites)
Abraham > Isaac > Esau > Eliphaz > Amalekites (through Adah)

Moses > Gershom and Eliezer (through Zipporah, a Midianite)
Abraham > Ishmael (through Hagar)
Abraham > Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuah (through Keturah)

1 Chronicles 2 - also see Ruth 4

Israel (Jacob) > Judah > Perez (mother: Tamar) > Hezron > Ram > Amminadab > Nahshon > Salmon > Boaz > Obed > Jesse > David

Matthew 1, Luke 3 (too extensive to list; see links below)

Genesis 5 - from Adam to Noah
Genesis 9:18-29 - the Sons of Noah
Genesis 10:1-32 - the Table of Nations
Genesis 10:2-5 - the Table of Nations: the Japhethites
Genesis 10:6-20 - the Table of Nations: the Hamites
Genesis 10:21-32 - the Table of Nations: the Semites
Genesis 22:20-24 - Nahor's sons
Genesis 25:12-18 - Ishmael's sons
Genesis 29:31-35 - Jacob's children
Genesis 30:1-24 - Jacob's children
Genesis 36:1-30 - Esau's descendants

Exodus 6:13-27 - family record of Moses and Aaron

Numbers 1 - the Census
Numbers 3 - the Levites
Numbers 4:1-20 - the Kohathites
Numbers 4:21-28 - the Gershonites
Numbers 4:29-33 - the Merarites
Numbers 4:34-49 - the numbering of the Levite clans
Numbers 26 - the 2nd Census
Numbers 27:1-11 - Zelophedad's daughters
Numbers 32 - the transjordan tribes
Numbers 36 - Zelophedad's daughters

1 Chronicles 1:1-4 - Adam to Noahs's sons
1 Chronicles 1:5-7 - the Japhethites
1 Chronicles 1:8-16 - the Hamites
1 Chronicles 1:17-27 - the Semites
1 Chronicles 1:28 - Abraham's descendents
1 Chronicles 1:29-31 - Hagar's descendents
1 Chronicles 1:32-33 - Keturah's descendents
1 Chronicles 1:34 - Sarah's descendents
1 Chronicles 1:35-37 - Esau's sons
1 Chronicles 1:38-42 - Seir's sons in Edom
1 Chronicles 2:1-2 - Israel's sons
1 Chronicles 2:3-9 - Judah's sons
1 Chronicles 2:10-17 - Ram's sons
1 Chronicles 2:18-24 - Caleb's sons
1 Chronicles 2:25-41 - Jerahmeel's sons
1 Chronicles 2:42-55 - Caleb's sons
1 Chronicles 3:1-9 - David's sons
1 Chronicles 3:10-16 - Judah's sons (kings of Judah)
1 Chronicles 3:17-24 - Jeoiachan's sons (royal line after the exile)


2 Chronicles 11:18-23 - Rehoboam's family

Ruth 4:13-22 - geneology of David

Ezra 8:1-14 - list of the family heads returning with Ezra

Nehemiah 7:4-73 - list of the exiles who returned

Isaiah 11 - the branch from Jesse

1 Chronicles 4:1-23 - Judah's descendents
1 Chronicles 4:24-43 - Simeon's descendents
1 Chronicles 5:1-10 - Reuben's descendents
1 Chronicles 5:11-22 - Gad's descendents
1 Chronicles 5:23-26 - Manasseh's descendents
1 Chronicles 6:1-30 - the Levites
1 Chronicles 7:1-5 - Isaachar's descendents
1 Chronicles 7:6-12 - Benjamin's descendents
1 Chronicles 7:13 - Naphtali's descendents
1 Chronicles 7:14-19 - Manasseh's descendents
1 Chronicles 7:20-29 - Ephraim's descendents
1 Chronicles 7:30-40 - Asher's descendents
1 Chronicles 8 - Saul the Benjamite's descendents
1 Chronicles 9:35-44 - Saul the Benjamite's descendents
1 Chronicles 14:1-7 - David's house and family
1 Chronicles 23:1-6 - the Levites
1 Chronicles 23:7-11 - Gershonites
1 Chronicles 23:12-20 - Kohathites
1 Chronicles 23:21-32 - Merarites


Jeremiah 35 - The Recabites

Hosea 1:2-11 - Hosea's wife and children

Matthew 1:1-17 - the genealogy of Christ

Luke 3:21-38 - the baptism and genealogy of Jesus

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