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"The book of the genesis of Jesus Christ,
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son of David, son of Abraham."
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Notice he calls him son of David,
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as a descendant of the great king of Israel,
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son of Abraham as the father of the Jews.
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Even the Greek word there, "the book of the genesis;"
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"the genesis" means "the beginning",
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and of course it's the Greek term
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that was given for the first book of the Hebrew Bible
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when they translated the Hebrew Bible into Greek,
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genesis just means"the beginning."
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Of course in the Hebrew Bible it's the beginning of the world,