Matthew 1
1 [This is] the record of the ancestors of Jesus the Messiah, the descendant of [King] David and of Abraham, [from whom all we Jews have descended].
A record of the genealogy of Yeshua Meshikha, the son of Dawid, the son of Avraham.
2 Abraham was the father of Isaac. Isaac was the father of Jacob. Jacob was the father of Judah and Judah’s [older and younger] brothers.
Avraham was the father of Iskhaq, and Iskhaq the father of Yaquv, and Yaquv the father of Yehudah and his brothers,
3 Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah, [and their mother] was Tamar. Perez was the father of Hezron. Hezron was the father of Ram.
and Yehudah was the father of Partz and Zarakh by Taymar, and Partz was the father of Khesrun, and Khesrun the father of Aram,
4 Ram was the father of Amminadab. Amminadab was the father of Nahshon. Nahshon was the father of Salmon.
and Aram the father of Aminadav, and Aminadav the father of Nakhshun, and Nakhshun the father of Salmun,
5 Salmon and his wife Rahab, [a non-Jewish woman], were the parents of Boaz. Boaz was the father of Obed. [Obed’s mother was] Ruth, [another non-Jewish woman]. Obed was the father of Jesse.
and Salmun the father of Baaz by Rakhav, and Baaz was the father of Euvid by Reuth, and Euvid was the father of Ishai,
6 Jesse was the father of King David. David was the father of Solomon. [Solomon’s mother was previously married to] Uriah.
and Ishai the father of Dawid the king. And Dawid was the father of Shelemun by her who had been the wife of Auriya;
7 Solomon was the father of Rehoboam. Rehoboam was the father of Abijah. Abijah was the father of Asaph.
and Shelemun was the father of Rekhavam, and Rekhavam the father of Aviya, and Aviya the father of Aysa;
8 Asaph was the father of Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat was the father of Jehoram. Jehoram was an ancestor of Uzziah.
and Aysa the father of Yahushaphat, and Yahushaphat the father of Yuram, and Yuram the father of Euziya,
9 Uzziah was the father of Jotham. Jotham was the father of Ahaz. Ahaz was the father of Hezekiah.
and Euziya the father of Yutham, and Yutham the father of Akhaz, and Akhaz the father of Khizaqiya;
10 Hezekiah was the father of Manasseh. Manasseh was the father of Amon. Amon was the father of Josiah.
and Khizaqiya the father of Menashe, and Menashe the father of Ahmun, and Ahmun the father of Yushiya,
11 Josiah was the grandfather of Jeconiah and Jeconiah’s brothers. [They lived] at the time when the [Babylonian army] took the Israelites as captives to the [country of] Babylon.
and Yushiya the father of Yukanya and his brothers, at the time of the exile to Babylon.
12 After the Babylonians took the Israelites to Babylon, Jeconiah became the father of Shealtiel. Shealtiel was the grandfather of Zerubbabel.
And after the exile to Babylon, Yukanya was the father of Shelatheil, and Shelatheil the father of Zurbabel,
13 Zerubbabel was the father of Abiud. Abiud was the father of Eliakim.
and Zurbabel the father of Aviud, and Aviud the father of Eliyaqim, and Eliyaqim the father of Ahzur,
14 Eliakim was the father of Azor. Azor was the father of Zadok. Zadok was the father of Akim.
and Ahzur the father of Zaduq, and Zaduq the father of Akin, and Akin the father of Eliyud,
15 Akim was the father of Eliud. Eliud was the father of Eleazar. Eleazar was the father of Matthan. Matthan was the father of Jacob.
and Eliyud the father of Eliazar, and Eliazar the father of Mathan, and Mathan the father of Yaquv,
16 Jacob was the father of Joseph. Joseph was Mary’s husband, and Mary was Jesus’ mother. Jesus is the one who is called {whom we call} the Messiah.
and Yaquv the father of Yauseph, the husband of Maryam, from whom was born Yeshua, who is called the Meshikha.
17 [As you can calculate, I have grouped Jesus’] ancestors [as follows: ] There was [a succession of] 14 of them from [the time when] Abraham [lived] to [the time when King] David [lived]. There was [a succession of] 14 of them from [the time when] David [lived] to [the time when] the [Israelites were taken] {[the Babylonian army took the Israelites]} away to Babylon. There was [a succession of] 14 of them from [the time when the Israelites were taken] {[the Babylonian army took the Israelites]} away to Babylon until [the time when] the Messiah [was born].
So all the generations from Avraham to Dawid are fourteen generations; and from Dawid to the exile to Babylon fourteen generations; and from the exile to Babylon to the Meshikha, fourteen generations.
18 This is [the account of what happened just before] Jesus Christ was born. Mary, his mother, {had publicly promised Joseph that she would marry him} had been publicly promised to marry Joseph. Before they began to sleep together, [Mary] realized that she was pregnant. [It was the power of] the Holy Spirit that had caused her to become pregnant.
Now the birth of Yeshua Meshikha happened like this. His mother Maryam had been engaged to Yauseph, and before they came together, she was found to be with child from the Rukha d'Qudsha.
19 Joseph, her [future] husband, was a man who obeyed God’s commands. [One of those commands was that men must divorce women who had acted immorally. So when Joseph learned that Mary was pregnant, he assumed that she was pregnant as a result of her acting immorally]. So he decided to break the engagement. But because he did not want to shame her publicly, he decided to do it privately.
And Yauseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.
20 While he was seriously considering this, much to his surprise, in a dream he saw an angel whom the Lord [had sent]. The angel said, “Joseph, descendant of [King] David, do not be afraid that [you(sg) would be doing wrong if you(sg) would marry] Mary. Instead, [begin to treat her] as your wife, because the Holy Spirit, [not a man], has caused her to be pregnant.
But when he thought about these things, look, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Yauseph, son of Dawid, do not be afraid to take to yourself Maryam, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Rukha d'Qudsha.
21 She will give birth to a son. Since it is he who will cause that his people will be saved from [the guilt of] their having sinned, name [the baby] Jesus, [which means ‘the Lord saves people’].”
And she will bring forth a son, and you are to name him Yeshua, for he will save his people from their sins."
22 All this happened as a result of what the Lord told the prophet [Isaiah to write long ago about what was going to happen]. This is what Isaiah wrote:
Now all this has happened, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,
23 “Listen, a virgin will become pregnant and will give birth to a son. They will call him Emmanuel.” Emmanuel means ‘God is with us’.
"Look, the virgin will conceive and bear a son, and they will call his name Amanuil;" which is translated, "God with us."
24 When Joseph got up from sleep, he did what the angel whom the Lord [had sent] commanded him to do. He took [Mary] home to be his wife.
And Yauseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took his wife to himself;
25 But he did not have sexual relations with her until she had given birth to a son. And [Joseph] named him Jesus.
and had no marital relations with her until she had brought forth a son; and he named him Yeshua.
