¹This is the record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham: ²Abraham was the father of Isaac, ³Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, ⁴Ram was the father of Amminadab, ⁵Salmon was the father of Boaz by Rahab, ⁶and Jesse the father of David the king. ⁷Solomon the father of Rehoboam, ⁸Asa was the father of Jehoshaphat, ⁹Uzziah was the father of Jotham, ¹⁰Hezekiah was the father of Manasseh, ¹¹and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers ¹²After the exile to Babylon: ¹³Zerubbabel the father of Abiud, ¹⁴Azor was the father of Zadok, ¹⁵Eliud was the father of Eleazar, ¹⁶and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, ¹⁷In all, then, there were fourteen generations from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Christ.