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| | Mat 1:1 | This is a record of the ancestors of Jesus the Messiah, a descendant of King David and of Abraham:
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| | Mat 1:2 | Abraham was the father of Isaac. Isaac was the father of Jacob. Jacob was the father of Judah and his brothers.
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| | Mat 1:3 | Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah (their mother was Tamar). Perez was the father of Hezron. Hezron was the father of Ram.
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| | Mat 1:4 | Ram was the father of Amminadab. Amminadab was the father of Nahshon. Nahshon was the father of Salmon.
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| | Mat 1:5 | Salmon was the father of Boaz (his mother was Rahab). Boaz was the father of Obed (his mother was Ruth). Obed was the father of Jesse.
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| | Mat 1:6 | Jesse was the father of King David. David was the father of Solomon (his mother was Bathsheba, the widow of Uriah).
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| | Mat 1:7 | Solomon was the father of Rehoboam. Rehoboam was the father of Abijah. Abijah was the father of Asaph.
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| | Mat 1:8 | Asaph was the father of Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat was the father of Jehoram. Jehoram was the father of Uzziah.
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| | Mat 1:9 | Uzziah was the father of Jotham. Jotham was the father of Ahaz. Ahaz was the father of Hezekiah.
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| | Mat 1:10 | Hezekiah was the father of Manasseh. Manasseh was the father of Amos. Amos was the father of Josiah.
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| | Mat 1:11 | Josiah was the father of Jehoiachin and his brothers (born at the time of the exile to Babylon).
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| | Mat 1:12 | After the Babylonian exile: Jehoiachin was the father of Shealtiel. Shealtiel was the father of Zerubbabel.
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| | Mat 1:13 | Zerubbabel was the father of Abiud. Abiud was the father of Eliakim. Eliakim was the father of Azor.
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| | Mat 1:14 | Azor was the father of Zadok. Zadok was the father of Akim. Akim was the father of Eliud.
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| | Mat 1:15 | Eliud was the father of Eleazar. Eleazar was the father of Matthan. Matthan was the father of Jacob.
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| | Mat 1:16 | Jacob was the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary. Mary was the mother of Jesus, who is called the Messiah.
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| | Mat 1:17 | All those listed above include fourteen generations from Abraham to King David, and fourteen from David's time to the Babylonian exile, and fourteen from the Babylonian exile to the Messiah.
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| | Mat 1:18 | Now this is how Jesus the Messiah was born. His mother, Mary, was engaged to be married to Joseph. But while she was still a virgin, she became pregnant by the Holy Spirit.
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| | Mat 1:19 | Joseph, her fianc‚, being a just man, decided to break the engagement quietly, so as not to disgrace her publicly.
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| | Mat 1:20 | As he considered this, he fell asleep, and an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream. "Joseph, son of David," the angel said, "do not be afraid to go ahead with your marriage to Mary. For the child within her has been conceived by the Holy Spirit.
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| | Mat 1:21 | And she will have a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins."
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| | Mat 1:22 | All of this happened to fulfill the Lord's message through his prophet:
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| | Mat 1:23 | "Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son, and he will be called Immanuel (meaning, God is with us)."
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| | Mat 1:24 | When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord commanded. He brought Mary home to be his wife,
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| | Mat 1:25 | but she remained a virgin until her son was born. And Joseph named him Jesus.
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