This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
And I will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee will I curse. And in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed. Because thou hast obeyed my voice.
And it shall come to pass, when thy days are fulfilled that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will set up thy seed after thee, who shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit.
He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Most High: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
Hath not the scripture said that the Christ cometh of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?
Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins he would set (one) upon his throne;
Of this man's seed hath God according to promise brought unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus;
concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh,
Now to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.