If you are a student of the Bible, perhaps some of your hardest going has been getting through the dietary laws of Leviticus or the “so and so begat so and so” of Genesis.  Unless we’ve taken the project on as a hobby, most of us know little about where our family line came from or who our grandparents were much more than a generation or two back.  But people in ancient Israel placed great importance on just who they were and where their families had come from.