the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan,
The genealogies do not necessarily list every person in the line of descent. As is often the case, they may be selective and stylized, to make them fit a simple scheme. Matthew, for example, omits some names to produce an arrangement of three sets of fourteen (Matthew 1:17).