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* Here are the names of the people in the family line from which Jesus Christ came . He came from Davids family . He came from Abrahams family . * Jesus family line : Abraham , Isaac , Jacob , Judah , Perez (his mother was Tamar ), Zezron , Ram , Amminadab , Nahshon , Salmon , Boaz (his mother was Rahab ), Obed (his mother was Ruth ), Jesse , David the king , Solomon (whose mother was Uriahs wife ), Rehoboam , Abijah , Asa , Jehoshaphat , Joram , Uzziah , Jotham , Ahaz , Hezekiah , Manasseh , Amon , Josiah , Jeconiah and his brothers (at the time the people of Israel were carried away to Babylon ), Shealtiel , Zerubbabel , Abiud , Eliakim , Azor , Zadok , Achim , Eliud , Eleazor , Matthan , Jacob and Joseph who was the husband of Mary . Mary was the mother of Jesus , who is called the Christ . * There were fourteen families from Abraham to David . There were fourteen families from David to the time the people were taken to Babylon . And there were fourteen families after that until Christ was born . * This is the way Jesus Christ was born . Mary , his mother , was promised to Joseph to be his wife . But before they were married , she found out that she was going to have a baby . It was by the Holy Spirit . * Joseph , the man she was to marry , was a good man . He did not want her to be made ashamed . So he planned to leave her without telling people about it . * While he was thinking about this , he had a dream . An angel of the Lord came to him . He said , Joseph , Davids son , do not fear to take Mary to be your wife . Her baby is by the Holy Spirit . * She will have a baby son . Name him Jesus , because he will save his people from the wrong things they have done . * All of this had been told long before by the Lord through his prophet . It came true . * The prophet said , A young woman who has not slept with a man is going to have a baby son . His name will be Emmanuel . That means "God is with us ." * Joseph woke up and did what the angel of the Lord told him to do . He took Mary to be his wife . * But he did not make love with her until her first son had been born . He named him Jesus .

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