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«GENEALOGY, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.»

«And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities: / And all their villages that were round about the same cities, unto Baal. These were their habitations, and their genealogy.»

«All these were the children of Asher, heads of their father's house, choice and mighty men of valour, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men.»

«And the number of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour, was twenty thousand and two hundred.»

«These are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.»

«All these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.»

«And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein, / These are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity, of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and came again to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one unto his city; / Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number, I say, of the men of the people of Israel was this; / The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two.»

«And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai; which took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name: / These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.»

«Of the sons of Shechaniah, of the sons of Pharosh; Zechariah: and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males an hundred and fifty.»

«These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.»