MINI-THREAD: Matthew’s Genealogy and the Tyndale House GNT.
My present Greek NT (NA 27) divides Matthew’s genealogy up into three distinct groups of names.
My present Greek NT (NA 27) divides Matthew’s genealogy up into three distinct groups of names.
But, in the Tyndale House GNT, the first paragraph break comes at the end of vs. 11, which has led me to consider 1.2-11 as a single unit. 
That’s been helpful because the unit turns out to have a neat symmetry.
It begins with a reference to ‘Judah and his brothers’ and ends with a reference to ‘Jeconiah-aka-Jehoiachin and his brothers’. (No other brothers are mentioned elsewhere in Matt. 1.)
It begins in Babylon (with the call of Abraham) and ends back in Babylon (with the exile of Jeconiah).
And its two sub-sections--i.e., Abraham to David in 1.2-6a and Solomon to Jeconiah in 1.6b-11--consist of 82 words each.
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