Ruth 4:21

Boaz. Married Ruth. Compare Ruth 4:13.

THE GENERATIONS OF PHAREZ.

Judah. Thamar

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Pharez

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Hezron

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Aram

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Amminadab

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Elisheba Nahshons

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Salmon

(nephew of Aaron, m. Rahab)

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Boaz

(married Ruth)

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Obed

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Jesse

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David

NOTE ON "THE GENERATIONS OF PHAREZ". If Salmon married Rahab in the year of the entry into the land (1451 B.C.); and the birth of David was in 990 B.C.; then, according to the above Table of Generations, the period of 461 years is covered by only four lives; namely Salmon, Boaz, Obed, and Jesse.

The inference therefore seems clear that, as in. Royal line it is not necessary to include every link (as it is in the case of an ordinary man), certain names are omitted in this pedigree, in order that "the generations of Pharez "may be reckoned as ten generations, to accord with the principle which we observe from Adam to Zedekiah (namely, Adam to Noah, ten; Shem to Abraham, ten; Solomon to Zedekiah twice ten). So here Pharez to David is given in ten generations. We see the same principle at work in other Tables of our LORD'S ancestry, names are omitted in order to make uniform reckonings.

For example, in Matthew 1:1 we have three counts of "fourteen generations"; see notes there. In Matthew 1:1, we have the whole given in two links (David and Abraham). Ruth herself is omitted in Ruth 4:17, above.