Sealed book of Mormon Ch.37

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AND now, I will begin the account of the life
and ministry of Jesus. And it is written in the
Bible, which ye have among you, the
genealogies of the lineage of Christ, both
according to the flesh, and according to the
lineage of the Priesthood that was given unto the
men at Jerusalem according to the traditions and
beliefs of the Jews.
And ye shall have two versions of the
lineage of Jesus given unto you, which shall be
a cause of much contention among you because
of these two different accounts of his lineage.
And now, I would that ye should know that
the first lineage that ye shall read in the book
which proceedeth forth from the mouth of the
Jew, is the literal lineage of Jesus according to
the flesh. But I ask ye, how can this be the literal
lineage of Jesus according to the flesh, when th e
Father of Jesus was not according to the flesh?
And he who hath understanding will understand
that the generations between Abraham and Jesus are forty and two, which correspond to that
which hath been spoken of by John, even of the
one thousand, two hundred and sixty days. He
who heareth, let him listen.
And now, it was common practice among
the Jews that the lineage of a man be given
through the father, or through patriarchal lines,
thus reserving the sense of authority that men
believe that they have over the women.
Nevertheless, he who wrote the first account
of the life of Jesus that ye have among you, even
he whom ye shall know as Matthew; yea, he
disregarded the traditions of the Jews according
to their ways and their customs. And the lineage
that he hath given of Jesus is the lineage of his
mother, Mary, whose lineage was the only
lineage of the flesh that could be properly
accounted as being true of Jesus, who had no
father according to the flesh.
And when he gave his account in the
beginning, it was correct and read according as
ye have it before you beginning with Abraham
and continuing until it cometh to Eliud, the son
of Achim. And then Matthew proceeded to give
the lineage according to the matriarchal order ,
because Jesus was born of Mary in the flesh and
not of any man.

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