This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God made man, he made him in the image of God. — Genesis 5:1
Four writers open four records of the same I AM, and none of them begin the same way. This is not stylistic variation. Each opening is doing a distinct piece of court business, and each one does it inside vocabulary the court fixed at creation — the filing formula, the day-one declaration, the verdict of good, the Word itself. Before Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John narrate a single event, each has already positioned YHVH somewhere specific inside Elohim's own courtroom procedure. The instrument each writer reaches for first is the court's own record-keeping vocabulary.
Matthew 1:1 — Genesis 5:1's Book of Generations
The book of the generations of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. — Matthew 1:1
Matthew opens with the exact formula Genesis uses for Adam's line ...
