 other than the times when you come across these lists of names, and you're thinking, I don't even know how to pronounce these guys, and of course they've been long dead, so like, what does it matter to me? And let me just give you two things that these genealogies typically point to. You're moving toward the Christ, which is the big promise in Genesis chapter 3, but you're also moving toward the nation that would produce the Christ.