Scripture keeps its family records with care. Genesis is organised around them, Chronicles opens with nine chapters of them, and both Matthew and Luke begin the story of Jesus with one. This page draws every genealogy in Scripture as one connected family tree — 620 names across ten charts — so you can follow a line from Adam to Jesus, or see where Edom, Moab, the Philistines and the seventy nations of Genesis 10 join the story.
Most entries give only a name and a father. But 117 people are given something more: a deed, a marriage, a trade, a place, a prayer, a death. Those are shown in mint. Tap any name to read what the text says about them, and where the Hebrew and the Septuagint differ.
Genesis 2:4 · 5:1 · Matthew 1:1
Hebrew · LXX / Greek NT · ESVThe Shape of Genesis
Tenfold headingThe Septuagint is shown beside the Hebrew. Where the two disagree inside a genealogy, the box carries an LXX mark and the note says what each text reads. The largest differences are Kainan (in the Septuagint at Genesis 10:24 and 11:12–13, and in Luke 3:36, but not in the Hebrew), the ages in Genesis 5 and 11 (the Septuagint usually adds a hundred years to each father’s age at his son’s birth), and the count of nations: seventy names in the Hebrew of Genesis 10, seventy-two in the Greek.
Some links are not stated. A dashed line means the text skips generations or does not say how two people are joined (Ezra to Seraiah, Eli to Ithamar, Asaph and Ethan to Levi). The nation labels in the Table of Nations come from history and archaeology, not from Genesis, and many are uncertain.
Not drawn as trees: lists of families with no father-to-son links (Num 26; Ezra 2 // Neh 7; 1 Chr 9; Neh 11–12; Ezra 10), the succession of the kings of Edom (Gen 36:31–39), and Judith’s long pedigree (Jdt 8:1).
Fifty-two genealogies and pedigrees, from Genesis to Hebrews. Paul warns against “endless genealogies” (1 Tim 1:4; Titus 3:9) — quarrels built on them, not the lists the Spirit gave.
Genesis
- Gen 4:17–24 — the line of Cain
- Gen 4:25–26 — Seth and Enosh
- Gen 5:1–32 — Adam to Noah
- Gen 10:1–32 — the Table of Nations
- Gen 11:10–26 — Shem to Terah
- Gen 11:27–32 — Terah’s family
- Gen 22:20–24 — Nahor’s children
- Gen 25:1–6 — Abraham’s sons by Keturah
- Gen 25:12–18 — the twelve princes of Ishmael
- Gen 25:19–26 — the generations of Isaac
- Gen 35:22–26 — the twelve sons of Jacob
- Gen 36 — Esau, the Horites and the kings of Edom
- Gen 46:8–27 — the seventy who went down to Egypt
The Law and the history books
- Exod 6:14–25 — Reuben, Simeon and Levi, to Moses and Aaron
- Num 3:1–39 — Aaron, Moses and the Levite clans
- Num 26 — the clans of the second census
- Ruth 4:18–22 — Perez to David
- 1 Sam 1:1 — Elkanah
- 1 Sam 9:1–2; 14:49–51 — the house of Saul
- 2 Sam 3:2–5; 5:13–16 — David’s sons
1 Chronicles 1–9
- 1 Chr 1 — Adam to Abraham, Ishmael, Keturah, Edom
- 1 Chr 2–4:23 — Judah
- 1 Chr 3 — David’s line through the exile
- 1 Chr 4:24–43 — Simeon
- 1 Chr 5 — Reuben, Gad, half-Manasseh
- 1 Chr 6 — Levi: high priests, singers, cities
- 1 Chr 7 — Issachar, Benjamin, Naphtali, Manasseh, Ephraim, Asher
- 1 Chr 8; 9:35–44 — Benjamin and Saul
- 1 Chr 9:1–34 — the resettlers of Jerusalem
After the exile and the prophets
- Ezra 2 // Neh 7 — the returning exiles
- Ezra 7:1–5 — Ezra back to Aaron
- Ezra 8:1–14 — the heads who came with Ezra
- Ezra 10:18–44 — the men with foreign wives
- Neh 11–12 — settlers, priests, Levites, Jeshua to Jaddua
- Esth 2:5 — Mordecai
- Zeph 1:1 — Zephaniah to Hezekiah
- Zech 1:1 — Zechariah son of Berechiah
Septuagint only
- Tob 1:1–2 — Tobit
- Jdt 8:1 — Judith
- Bar 1:1 — Baruch
- 1 Esd 5; 8:1–2 — parallels to Ezra 2 and 7
- 1 Macc 2:1–5 — Mattathias and his sons
- Job 42:17b–e — Job as Jobab, fifth from Abraham
New Testament
- Matt 1:1–17 — Abraham to Jesus, three fourteens
- Luke 3:23–38 — Jesus back to Adam
- Luke 1:5; 2:36 — Zechariah, Elizabeth, Anna
- Rom 11:1; Phil 3:5 — Paul of Benjamin
- Heb 7:3 — Melchizedek, “without genealogy”
Pleasant Springs Church — Deep Research
Research method after Michael S. Heiser’s Bible Research Method (examine dictionaries → ancient literature → important words → textual connections → academic publications → share), with the Pleasant Springs “Author & Audience” foundation. Scripture set in the Hebrew, the Greek editions named on each page and the ESV (Old Testament), and the Greek New Testament and the ESV (New Testament), per the practice of Pleasant Springs Church. The Book of Generations draws on the genealogies of Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, Ruth, Samuel, 1 Chronicles 1–9, Ezra, Nehemiah, Matthew 1 and Luke 3, with the Septuagint read beside the Hebrew throughout.
Scripture quotations marked ESV are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. ESV Text Edition: 2016. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The ESV text may not be quoted in any publication made available to the public by a Creative Commons license, and the ESV may not be translated in whole or in part into any other language. www.esv.org
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