What is in question: Ruth, Matthew, and Luke list Nahshon, Salmon, and Boaz in sequence, but the long period involved raises the question of whether the genealogy is telescoped, meaning it may skip unnamed generations.

One reading

Read the names as the listed family sequence

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Claim: The genealogy is displayed as the named sequence the biblical texts give: Nahshon, then Salmon, then Boaz.

Basis: Ruth 4:20-21, Matthew 1:4-5, and Luke 3:32 list these names consecutively.

Who holds it: not attributed to a named source in this dataset

Verses:

Another reading

Read the sequence as telescoped

contested

Claim: The names may be a compressed family line rather than immediate father-to-son links at every step.

Basis: The texts give the sequence, but the long span from the wilderness generation to Boaz leaves room for omitted generations.

Who holds it: not attributed to a named source in this dataset

Verses:

Scholarly weight: The listed sequence is the normal way to display the biblical text. The telescoping caution is also widely allowed in genealogy work, so the apparatus should not claim certainty that every listed link is an immediate biological father-son link.

Graph note: The graph keeps the named sequence for navigation and flags the links as telescoped where the data marks that possibility.

Nahshon -> Salmon is marked as a telescoped lineage edge. Spans the conquest/Judges period; commonly held to omit generations.