If you are referring to the account given in the book of Matthew then that account wasn't meant to be an unbroken genealogy that gave every single person in the lineage from Abraham to Jesus. Here's is what John Gill writes about this in his commentary.
Matthew 1:17 So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.
The Evangelist having traced the genealogy of Christ from Abraham, which he divides into "three" parts, because of the threefold state of the Jews, "first" under Patriarchs, Prophets, and Judges, "next" under Kings, and "then" under Princes and Priests, gives the sum of each part under its distinct head;
"And from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations."
Here David who closed the first division must be excluded this, and it must be observed, that the Evangelist does not say as before, that "all" the generations from David to the captivity were fourteen, for there were seventeen, three kings being omitted by him at once; but, the generations he thought fit to mention, in order to reduce them to a like number as before, and which were sufficient for his purpose, were fourteen;
"And from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations."
This must be understood as before; for there might be more generations in this interval, but these were enough to answer the design of the Evangelist; and which he thought proper to mention, and may be numbered in this manner; Jechonias, or Jehoiachin, Salathiel, Zorobabel, Abiud, Ehakim, Azor, Sadoc, Achim, Eliud, Eleazar, Matthan, Jacob, Joseph, Christ. This way of reckoning by generations was used by other nations as well as the Jews , particularly the Grecians;
2006-08-15 16:03:52
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answered by Martin S 7
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Figurative speaking Abraham was around 1800 BC, and allow 23 years for each new generation, you figure it out.
2006-08-15 15:39:38
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answered by pooh bear 4
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Welcome to Answers Darius!
As for your question: Is the answer C. none of the above?
2006-08-15 15:41:06
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answered by valcus43 6
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