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¹ This is[fn] a record of the birth of Jesus Christ,[fn] the son of David, the son of Abraham.[xr] ² Abraham fathered Isaac, Isaac fathered Jacob, and Jacob fathered Judah and his brothers.[xr] ³ Judah fathered Perez and Zerah by Tamar, Perez fathered Hezron, Hezron fathered Aram,[xr] ⁴ Aram fathered Aminidab, Aminidab fathered Nahshon, and Nahshon fathered Salmon. ⁵ Salmon fathered Boaz by Rahab, Boaz fathered Obed by Ruth, Obed fathered Jesse, ⁶ and Jesse fathered King David.[xr] David fathered Solomon by the wife of Uriah, ⁷ Solomon fathered Rehoboam, Rehoboam fathered Abijah, Abijah fathered Asaph,[fn][xr] ⁸ Asaph[fn] fathered Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat fathered Joram, Joram fathered Uzziah, ⁹ Uzziah fathered Jotham, Jotham fathered Ahaz, Ahaz fathered Hezekiah, ¹⁰ Hezekiah fathered Manasseh, Manasseh fathered Amos,[fn] and Amos[fn] fathered Josiah.[xr] ¹¹ Josiah fathered Jechoniah and his brothers at the time of the deportation to Babylon.[xr] ¹² After the deportation to Babylon, Jechoniah fathered Salathiel, Salathiel fathered Zerubbabel,[xr] ¹³ Zerubbabel fathered Abiud, Abiud fathered Eliakim, Eliakim fathered Azor, ¹⁴ Azor fathered Zadok, Zadok fathered Achim, Achim fathered Eliud, ¹⁵ Eliud fathered Eleazar, Eleazar fathered Matthan, and Matthan fathered Jacob. ¹⁶ Jacob fathered Joseph, the husband of Mary, who was the mother of Jesus,[fn] who is called the Christ.[fn] ¹⁷ So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen[fn] generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon were fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ[fn] were fourteen generations.

¹⁸ Now the birth of Jesus Christ[fn] happened in this way. When his mother Mary was engaged[fn] to Joseph, before they lived together she was discovered to be pregnant by the Holy Spirit.[xr] ¹⁹ Her husband Joseph, being a righteous man and unwilling to disgrace her, decided to divorce her secretly.[xr] ²⁰ After he had thought about it, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, "Joseph, son of David, don't be afraid to take Mary as your wife, for what has been conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.[xr] ²¹ She will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Jesus,[fn] because he is the one who will save his people from their sins."[xr] ²² Now all this happened to fulfill what was declared by the Lord through the prophet when he said, ²³ "See, a virgin will become pregnant[xr] and give birth to a son, and they will name him Immanuel,"[fn] which means, "God with us." ²⁴ When Joseph got up from his sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary as[fn] his wife. ²⁵ He did not have marital relations with[fn] her until she had given birth to a son;[fn] and he named him Jesus.[xr]